Content Warnings
Before I get into any of this, what is discussed and shown here on this doc will include race fetishization, cyberstalking, and general misogynistic behavior and statements. If any of these are triggering to you for any reason, please be cautious while reading or simply refrain from reading entirely. NSFW text will be on display here as well but I have decided on excluding any explicitly NSFW imagery on this document for now. With warnings out of the way, here we go.
Introduction
I cannot believe I am actually sitting down to write this out but I feel events over the course of this past year or so specifically have left me with little recourse but to make a public callout post to inform people of the activities of an individual who is both stalking me and harassing artists I work with. The individual in question is someone I will simply refer to as “The Claude guy” from here on out for simplicities sake, because they feel the need to run multiple accounts on multiple websites across the internet all with different names, but the vast, vast majority of these accounts are in fact ran by the same individual as far as I have been able to gather both by simply paying attention, doing some internet sleuthing, and in one case doing something deeply unprofessional of me and having to ask an artist directly to confirm suspicions I had. This user has lied on discord servers I have previously been on with them about the nature of these commissions and where they come from. I will try my best to lay out the details of what has happened and why I am going out of my way to create a public callout post on this topic for anybody that has not had run-ins with this person and knew something like this was likely a long time coming. In my mind, this is still quite possibly the stupidest shipping war I’ve seen in my entire time on the internet but perhaps that is just because I have been so hands off until I got into fandom spaces in 2020.
For people already informed and simply looking for the list of accounts, I have a list at the very end of this written document if you wish to skip ahead. Something I will preface all of this with, is something I want nobody to do here is harass him back. He’s morally reprehensible, misogynistic, and generally a terrible person I want nothing to do with, so if you feel similarly, just look ahead to the end of this doc and block him on whatever social medias you have in common but don’t go any further than that. Just ignore him and move on with your life because there are better things to do.
FORMATTING
So because of the width and depth of how far this all goes, formatting and communicating information will require a lot of words and associated images. When I am referring to an image on the document, I will say something like, “This person did this or that/posted this/referring to a conversation with somebody else/etc.” and immediately following that, in brackets I will refer to the image(s) on the doc that are relevant to/prove my claims. So as an example: “I would post up art and wips onto the server and they would immediately post Hilclaude art under my commissions to one up it (Weird behavior on Discord pt1 and pt2)” and I would recommend anytime you see something in brackets, you refer to images on the document under those names to help gain an understanding of what I am referring to. I will work on embedding image links into the text so it should be easy to see an image and get back to reading but it might work better having two tabs open with one for reading and another to refer to images on the document whichever you find easier. Moving onto the next segment with that out of the way.
Part 1: The Background
So to preface this, I have to lay out as much background as I can and put simply there is a lot. As an aside, I will also say, the vast majority of what is discussed here is not actively harmful. I have included it here because it is incredibly important for the purposes of providing context, but if all you are here for is the worst of it, skip ahead to part 5 as that is where the most directly harmful actions are documented as far as stalking and harassment.
For anybody that does not know me already, I’m someone that has been commissioning artwork of Male Byleth and Hilda from Fire Emblem Three Houses since mid 2020. I have never interacted with any fandom in such a way before as I know things can get very toxic very fast, but the first artist I ever worked with Tamafries did such a fantastic job on the idea I submitted that what I thought was simply going to be a one and done “Cool, I got my one piece of awesome fanart for a ship that was underrepresented in fanart. Time to go and vanish back to lurking in all fanspaces.” wound up becoming something I really loved and wanted to do more of because of how amazing Tama did. Caused by a combination of covid stresses, general life stresses, an abundance of money I had due to being good with saving and frugal with spending despite working very humble jobs, I found myself with an entirely newfound hobby, that being I was commissioning artists very frequently as time went on to have them continue to draw art of my OTP rarepair of sorts. It has reached the point that people who don’t know that it is primarily me and a new guy that’s been commissioning art that is the source and reason for the vast majority of the Byleth x Hilda artwork that you see on the internet.
Eventually I found that there was a very dormant Hilda themed discord server. I joined and messaged the owner there about livening the place up by adding new management, advertising on the Hilda subreddit, and I myself also applied for a mod position there which was accepted. I cleaned the place up as best I could, banned bad players, tried to reign in people and make the place a generally friendly and comfortable environment, but I was not the owner so I could only do so much. Around mid 2022, a person under the username “Axe and Deer” joined(Username discord 2). This user would post a lot of Claude x Hilda art onto the Hilda related art channels, both SFW and NSFW which in itself is fine actually. At the time of them joining I had a passing enjoyment of Hilclaude as a ship even if I had a clear preference for Hildaleth. This would change as time went on as I head into the first major segment of this written document.
Part 2: Instances Of Weird Things They’ve Said
A couple of months into them joining, they were posting some increasingly weird art and saying increasingly weird things on the NSFW channels, usually artwork and text posts regarding to Claude x Hilda stuff with a strange fascination on emphasizing that Claude was getting both Hilda and Marianne pregnant and saying, I directly quote what he said on the server here “Claude just doing his duty and continuing the Edmund and Goneril names. They’re probably already pregnant with his baby so he’s gotta take care of them.” (Weird shit said on Discord 1) This would not be the only time they said something that takes me aback for a moment. Up to the last few moments of me being a part of that server, he would continue saying and posting incredibly fetishistic dialogue under commissions (Weird shit said on Discord 2 and 3).
In particular, moment 3 is something I was hung up on for a while because I have gone on to ask multiple people I know about the nature of these text posts plus artwork posted by them and the unanimous feedback I received all leads to the suspicions I have of that being this user has a pregnancy fetish, a patriarchy fetish, an obsession with self inserting as Claude, and a raceplay fetish because he cannot be normal about the fact that Claude is a mixed race character in the setting of Fire Emblem Three Houses. Royal Almyran cum? Really dude? (Weird shit said on Discord 2) I cannot include this comm on here as it is far too NSFW to include for my standards here but there are particular NSFW comms they have gotten with some truly startling fetishistic and racist dialogue in terms of playing up racial elements between Claude and Hilda
Some of their Reddit posts were also weirdly worded. One artpost in particular was titled “Claude giving out valentine’s day gifts to his white girls!” (weird shit said on reddit 1) I remember seeing the account post it for the first time so many years ago and I blocked it on sight and have only just now realized it was one of their alt accounts but that is a segment for later.
One of the artworks they posted up onto Discord was artwork of a what if scenario in which Claude ordered Hilda to kill Dimitri on the Verdant Wind route and make it look like Edelgard did it with a weird kind of incredibly out of character tone to it for everybody involved. (lying about comms not being theirs 1, 2, and 3) Underneath it I was confused and pointed out how out of character the entire thing is in addition to saying it wasn’t “based of Hilda to kill Dimitri” and mentioned their comm was weird at which point they said “this one ain’t mine” and this will segue into the next major segment that will likely be the most confusing segment but I will try to be clear with it.
Part 3: Running Multiple Accounts and Lying About It.
Alright now this one is something I was deeply suspicious of for so long but I was finally able to get confirmed for me through both piecing things together myself over the years and getting direct confirmation from artists I have worked with over the years. The Claude guy for some reason or another lies and runs multiple accounts of which I know of at least two Twitter accounts (username twitter 1 and 2), one Bluesky account (Username bluesky) and maybe a burner Bluesky I’ll get into later, three Reddit accounts (username reddit 1, 2, and 3), one burner Reddit account they harassed me with that we will get into at a later segment (Reddit burner incident 1, 2, and 3), one ko-fi account (ko-fi username), and a burner ko-fi which I will not be sourcing here, and lastly one main Pixiv account (Pixiv stuff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) I know of and maybe an alt burner they use which I will get into later.
Now, how do I know this? Well for one thing a ton of their comms between all of these accounts share a similar theme, characters used, artists they comm from, and some are easily directly confirmed by simply checking the comments on something like their Pixiv to see it says “commissioned by me” (cross proof 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) and then on the Twitter post it’s either credited to or just directly posted by one of these accounts I have just referred to previously. And on top of all of these things, Gzei, a trusted artist of mine, directly confirmed the account “Axe and Deer” was the commissioner and that there has only ever been one person commissioning all of the recent Claude related art from him which is very important for later. I had noticed on their Discord account that they were mutual friends with Gzei so I inquired to Gzei about if this was them after things got significantly worse this year but we’ll get there.
Gzei posted up a Claude x Petra commission and on Twitter, it was credited to the account “Violet_Shadows” (Gzei cross proofing accounts 1), but on Bluesky it was simply credited but not directly @’d to “liberi” (Gzei cross proofing accounts 2) which for a time was part of their Twitter handle but they change usernames all the time (changing Twitter usernames 1 and 2). As of this point I was highly suspicious of the Claude guy stalking me so I reached out to Gzei directly about all of this and provided proof and he confirmed for me that yes, these are all the same damn person and he is just lying for some reason (Gzei confirms Discord account is theirs and everything is from them 1, 2, and 3). Additionally, while I was writing this I reached out to Gzei just to make sure that violet shadows was an alt and yes he did confirm for me but I will not be including that screenshot at his request. Also for context as of this point I had Claude and all related ship tags, known accounts, etc muted and or blocked. The only way I saw these was because of Discord servers I’m in that weren’t the Hilda server posting them. As of this point I had left the Hilda server around mid 2025 for reasons I’ll get to later.
It is confusing, hard to keep track of, but I was suspicious for a while and eventually just dug even a little and got my confirmation. I then promptly blocked all accounts I knew of, muted ship tags, and just tried to ignore them on the Hilda server as much as I could. They would make this difficult which leads into my next segment.
Part 4: Insecure Behavior and Early Stalking
Their comms were weird in tone, their text on NSFW channels felt racially fetishizing and sexist, and generally there was nothing I personally liked about the guy other than he paid artists in an era of generative AI nonsense, I still respect that aspect of the Claude guy. What I cannot respect is the fact he very much was after a certain point stalking me. It started out as something small which was that I would post up finished comms or wips onto the Hilda server, and immediately underneath it, he would post Hilclaude art (weird behavior on discord 1 and 2). It did not matter if the art was new, old, commissioned by him or not. If I posted up Hildaleth art, he would post Hilclaude underneath it and I will confess to getting fed up with it enough I started firing back so to say and if he posted a string of Hilclaude art immediately after mine I would post new art comms or wips but that is also arguably my own insecurity and anger at this guy’s actions. This behavior was consistent across not just the Discord but also Pixiv.
For a time, I worked a job where I had to get up very early so while I was making breakfast at like 5 AM and eating it I was trying to make a point to post some comms over the morning preparations onto Pixiv. In some instances literally within the span of a single minute he would post a Hilclaude piece (weird Pixiv behavior 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). And additionally, I cannot confirm this and it’s entirely possible this is not the case but I suspect he made a Pixiv alt (Pixiv suspected alt) because it was an account that also did the same thing on main of posting up Hilclaude onto Pixiv within minutes of me posting mine up (weird Pixiv behavior 5 and 6). The account doesn’t specify these are commissions or art made by them and the art looks inconsistent in terms of style so if I had to guess he made a burner account for sake of reuploading art not his. I cannot prove this, however it is within the realms of his prior behavior.
All of this is incredibly weird and odd to do but after a certain point I reached a breaking point because of both real life stresses with moving to a different state, working a new job, and general insane life stresses because of circumstances outside this entire ordeal that I realized I felt I could no longer run the Hilda discord server in the way I wanted to so I initially locked every channel on it, set everything to private, and made an announcement that I would be leaving the server soon and it would be going dormant. Before I did I tried reaching out to the actual owner of the server but he was unavailable. People on the server I knew vaguely at the time reached out to me in DMs about being able to mod the server in my absence and midway through typing everything out the actual server owner got back to me and we handed the server off to new owners and I left as I was planning to. I had hoped that between leaving the server, blocking and muting every account I was suspect of, and muting anything related to Claude that I would finally just have peace and quiet regarding this person. I would not in fact find the peace I was hoping for.
Part 5: Further Stalking and Harassment of me, Artists, Other People I Know and NTR Shit
Jumping further back to December of 2024. I have multiple friends I confide and vent to in private about this of course. One of them is an art commissioner in other servers and he name-dropped me on a completely unrelated server because a comm of mine was posted there and frame 1 immediately after name-dropping me, somebody got into his DMs and sent Hilclaude porn to him (friend getting harassed 1, 2, and 3). My friend understandably went “wtf is wrong with you” and deleted the dms and blocked him. We never got 100% confirmation on this because my friend nuked the entire interaction from orbit, but given it was an art commissioning server he was on and we already know he lies and runs alt accounts, I am highly suspect of who this was and what was sent was something the Claude guy posted up on the Hilda server of course.
Now this next one we 100% know was him. I commissioned an artist who has requested to remain anonymous with their name censored on this doc and I will be respectful to that wish. They gave me permission to use these posts with names censored on this document. I commissioned an artist this year to do an art idea I had. This artist self-admittedly says they cannot draw men well and I knew this going in so I comm’d something Hilda centric with Byleth as a feature on it and it turned out fantastic. Immediately after it was posted up publicly the Claude guy started harassing the artist about him publicly posting up a Hilclaude comm he had previously gotten from him. I did not receive this information from the artist initially, but from a mutual friend we both had who also requested they be anonymous on this doc (guy harassing artist about comms 1 and 2).
In preparation for this document, I reached out to the artist directly, confided in them that their friend leaked the info to me, and filled them in as much as I could on what had happened and asked for permission to include this story on the document (conversation with artist 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). The artist actually gave the Claude guy permission to post the art, the artist simply did not want to post it themself because they felt they didn’t do a good enough job for it because they can’t draw men well which I knew going in and was why I worked my comm around it but the Claude guy didn’t consider that and got mad enough at the artist about posting it he harassed him until the artist full on muted and blacklisted the Claude guy. This was instance 2 I know of for the Claude guy directly harassing people I know and artists I work with and it was not the last one but this first requires a sidequest to discuss one of the things they had done to give context.
As a short aside, there was Sierra, an artist I worked with a lot that DM’d me because the Claude guy wanted to directly copy one of my ideas but change up the characters and Sierra asked for my permission because it was originally my comm of course (ko-fi evidence 1). I was flabbergasted at this shit because holy fuck leave me alone Claude guy but ultimately I don’t think you can copyright a pose and I want my artists to get paid. What was important here, is that Sierra included the DM. I notice the username “Greysing” on there being the one DMing Sierra which I take note of.
Okay, so as of this point in history I am off the Hilda server, I have every account I know of muted, and ship tags plus Claude’s name muted on all social media. An associate of mine on another server mentions that Sierra publicly posted up a very thinly veiled NTR comm (cuck shit 1). My friend sends it to me in DMs and because I am chill enough with Sierra I reach out back to her about it to confirm my suspicions that it was the Claude guy and indeed it was his ko-fi account Greysing (ko-fi evidence 2). This would later become a little redundant as they posted it up onto Reddit under their “wyvern-in-pink” account (cuck shit 1). The comm has a very thinly veiled excuse to pass it as not being NTR shit by including the text “when you can’t gay marry claude” over it, but there’s a textless alt, the damn thing is tagged with Hilclaude, and be so for real he is not actually sad in any way about Claude not being a gay option he never comms Claude x any guy as far as I’ve seen and him coopting a sadness for a lack of a gay option is revolting in my opinion. This is not the only time he’s had Claude get drawn butting in on the girl of an unrelated ship as he had commissioned artwork of Annette between Felix and Claude with weirdass creepy text as if Claude is stealing Annette from Felix so honestly I’m not giving this guy any benefit of the doubt (cuck shit 2 and 3). With that out of the way,
Now the artist for this one says it is fine for me to talk about, but not directly include screenshots or mention them by name so I will have to simply relay the information through text. I commissioned one of my frequent artists and it all turned out good as always. I post it up and I’m all good for the day. I go onto the artist’s ko-fi over the next few days to plan out my next commission from them, and I notice on their ko-fi page that there is the name “Greysing”. Due to interactions with Sierra prior I know this is him, and this is another artist I have worked with for years so I am comfortable informing them about everything. I tell them about the cuck shit, the stalking, and they inform me they had submitted the same exact idea I had submitted days prior for an unrelated meme redraw idea that was trending at the time. I cannot prove this and in fact I believe it was coincidental in this particular case as I had not publicly posted about wanting to do this redraw idea with Hildaleth, but the artist’s response is to block, blacklist, and refund their order because at bare minimum they were stalking me enough to go to said artist, a deeply frequent favorite of mine to draw Hilclaude as soon as I had posted up a Hildaleth comm from them which aligns with their intensely unwell stalking behaviors on the discord and Pixiv.
What happens next is what really was the tipping point for me on deciding “okay he isn’t gonna stop this behavior I am gonna have to call him out on this and inform people.” There was a now deleted post on a completely unrelated to Fire Emblem subreddit that I frequent which had a thread asking “who’s your fandom’s boogeyman?” considering I was hot off the heels of this guy stalking and harassing artists I knew this year as well as comming thinly veiled cuck shit, I do not mention him by name, but I do bring up his actions like stalking, harassment, having a raceplay fetish, and running multiple accounts while lying (reddit burner incident 1). What happened next was disturbing to me and is the number one indicator that things up until now which I had suspected but could not prove were in fact 100% true. Within a matter of about an hour after posting on an entirely unrelated to FE subreddit, a brand new account not even 17 minutes old messages me claiming to be the Hilclaude guy and asking if we can talk, saying he hasn’t done NTR art, doesn’t have a raceplay fetish, and other things (Reddit burner incident 2 and 3).
So this is quite possibly the single most insanely damning piece of evidence on here. I have all of the known Reddit accounts blocked, I want nothing to do with him, why the *fuck* does he think I would want to talk with him after he just directly confirmed he was in fact cyberstalking me!? The reasoning and deflection of my criticisms for him are weak. He claims to not have a raceplay fetish because he ships Claude with Petra and Hapi as well. Okay cool the best argument he has for not having a raceplay fetish is effectively “I’m not racist I have black friends” but for shipping. We know he has a raceplay fetish as I pull up the list of insanely weird stuff he has said (weird shit said on discord 1, 2, and 3, Pixiv stuff 5, and weird shit on Reddit 1).
He emphasizes racial elements, fetishizes Claude’s Almyran heritage (weird shit said on Discord 2), and gives him a harem of damn near every girl in Three Houses and goes on rants about Claude impregnating multiple girls. It is fucking weirdo behavior and trying to say you don’t have a raceplay fetish is insane when there is this much bullshit on you. If he knew how to be fucking normal and stay in his lane I could simply ignore this but it’s not enough, he has to stalk me, artists I work with, and completely unrelated people I know and I am not putting up with this anymore. If I have to guess he runs so many alternative accounts because he wants to be able to just ditch it if he catches too much flak for being a fucking creep. He is obsessed with being the center of attention and feels threatened by me commissioning so much Hildaleth art that he feels the need to explicitly target artists I frequent to draw Hilclaude after I have gotten them to draw Hildaleth. This is the only explanation I can think of for why he has consistently acted in this completely and utterly insanely unhealthy way.
He admits in this message to me he almost comm’d the NTR comm with Petra instead of Hilda but went with Hilda because Hilclaude is the more popular ship. So you admit that you don’t commission out of love for your ships, you decide things based on fucking popularity?! He treats comms and artists like they’re a clout generating machine. It’s why he got mad at the previous artist for not posting up his comm and telling him that he could just post it and that not being good enough for him. This is deeply unhealthy behavior and I am going to call it out. Additionally while I was editing this doc and previewing it, Sierra gave me more information, namely that this guy was asking for Sierra to post up comms at specific times (Sierra added info). As for why, if I had to guess it’s because he plans posting times to get as many people to see his comms because he’s obsessive about being center of attention as we can gather from his previous attempts at one upping me on pixiv and discord.
Making an alt burner account on Reddit was not enough however because he also went and made a burner ko-fi account as well and donated money to the artist I referred to earlier who blocked him after I relayed info to them. In order to DM this artist on ko-fi you have to have either ordered something or donated money to them so the Claude guy literally made a burner account to donate money to an artist for the express purposes of getting into their DMs after being blocked. Once again, at the artist’s request I will not be using images or names from them, but the Claude guy DM’d this artist while lying and claiming him and I had a conversation where I said the artist had blocked him. We had no such conversation and the artist trusted me enough to relay this to me and tell me he was lying to them. He is a compulsive liar that lies about conversations we haven’t had, what comms are his, the nature of his comms, his intentions behind what he comms, everything. I don’t trust anything he says anymore and I don’t think anyone should.
Sierra also received a message from him meant for me (Guy messaging me through Sierra). I have a lot to say about this one, but namely, what the hell do you mean by “Hilda was just a prop”? That is not how you fucking talk about female characters and saying Hilda was “just a prop” for that comm is incredibly telling of every layer of misogyny on this and how all he does is view girls as objects for him to ship Claude with. Once again he states he almost went for Petra here but chose Hilda because she’s a more popular option for Claude so again, choosing comm pairings out of popularity and in conjunction with the fact he asked for specific posting times really says he treats comms as popularity contests, not as passion projects. Additionally, what the hell is this “dedicating a Hildaleth art to me”????? Do we really think a commission gift absolves being stalked for years and having artists I know get harassed over this insane insecurity?!
In addition to all prior incidents, over the course of me compiling all of this information, he made another alt account under a completely different name on vgen and tried to ask Gzei about commissioning (Gzei being asked about a comm). Because he had already comm’d Gzei as a guest before and you have to use an email with a guest account all of his old comms got linked to this guest email and Gzei could clearly see it was him and informed me it was him despite him making another fake name online so like just stop dude?
Part 6: Miscellaneous Stuff Before Closing Statements
After the debacle with the Reddit burner account DMing me, there was an odd account that followed me on Bluesky, only follows me, was made highly recently, and only has one post that being a very generic reply on an old commission I posted up (probable bluesky burner 1 and 2). It wouldn’t be surprising if this was a burner account made by him to bait out my interactions or something but all I know is the timing of it immediately after the Reddit thread debacle is suspect as fuck. If this is an entirely different person I apologize for accusing you, but you also are not making things easy for me.
Many of their comms reek of this insanely weird one sided “one men multiple women” fake polycule shit that he does to get away with Claude x multiple girls (weird shit on reddit 2 and 3). Wording it like that is gross and weird and trying to hide your harem shit behind polycules is offensive.
One of his comms he posted on the Discord and lied about not being his, features Hilda killing Dimitri and blaming it on Edelgard (weird shit commissioned). I don’t want to get too deeply into 3H character debates here, but we know in canon from a ton of her interactions that Hilda is disturbed and shaken by death and doesn’t want to fight former classmates no matter how closely she knew them. She’s visibly shaken by finding Dimitri dead and cries for him while saying he didn’t deserve that. He doesn’t respect Hilda’s character in canon. This commission is so absurdly out of character for everybody involved. Claude on VW wouldn’t order Hilda to kill a potential ally like Dimitri and even if he did Hilda wouldn’t fucking do that but he doesn’t care about that he wants his stupidass fetish content regardless of canon characterization. I know 3 Hopes exists and Claude is more ruthless there but he chose it as a Three Houses not hopes commission because I don’t know this guy operates on a level I don’t understand.
Part 7: Closing Statements and Resolutions
So this was probably the biggest fanbase thing I have been inadvertently dragged into by tons of circumstances forcing me to feel I have to take a stand and make a statement because he will not stop harassing me and people I know. I do not expect things to magically stop by calling him tf out like this, but what I have tried to accomplish here is informing artists and people active in the FE community of this person and all of his weird obsessions and activities. For most people and artist’s, I would advise you all to simply block him and move on. I understand if some do not have that luxury as life is hard for everyone rn and sometimes you have to take money from unsavory clients, but please at least be suspicious of the nature for any Claude ship art you receive requests for in the future because I can assure you the place it is coming from is nowhere good and it isn’t being used for honest love and enjoyment of the arts, it is being used as fodder for one man and his incredibly one sided attempt at a shipping war because he doesn’t know how to block and mute shit. His obsession has led him to harassment and stalking and I believe as of now we as a community are better off ignoring and refusing to feed into these types of people.
I will include a list of all known accounts and urls below if anybody wishes to investigate and verify my claims myself or go to directly block them.
Pixiv account: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/81152055
Pixiv alt: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/100851993
Twitter 1: https://twitter.com/amor_oscura
Twitter 2: https://twitter.com/Violet_Shadows_
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/red-lunar.bsky.social
Reddit 1: https://www.reddit.com/user/wyvern-in-pink/
Reddit 2: https://www.reddit.com/user/Banana-in-Pink/
Reddit 3: https://www.reddit.com/user/Edel-Blaze/
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/O5O3ENHBR