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Finally figured out how to lay these out the way I like best!

Some more Veyle, because she's adorable!

#fire emblem icons #fire emblem #fire emblem engage #veyle icons #fire emblem veyle #veyle fire emblem #fe veyle #veyle

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Anyone talks crap about Veyle is my enemy. She is IMO the best character in Engage, and all she wants is to make things right and prove she is more than just a Fell Dragon.

When Veyle trends on twitter but that's for the worst possible reason imagineable

#fire emblem engage #fire emblem #fe engage #veyle fire emblem #veyle #protect the baby #jrpg games

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When you insult Veyle in my presence.

#dqxi #dq11 #luminary #dragon quest #jrpg

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Sora is a much better protagonist than many give him credit for.

#jrpg games #kh sora #sora #kingdom hearts #kh3 #kh #kh com #kh2 sora #protagonist

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Reach for my hand!

I’ll soar away into our dawn!

It’s time to Engage!

Wed in cherished halls,

In peaceful days

walk to the edge of dawn

Embrace this new age!

#fire emblem engage #fe engage #feh #fire emblem heroes #nel fire emblem #fire emblem #jrpg #jrpg games

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Akihiko? Are you ok?

#akihiko sanada #i’ve been waiting for this #trails of cold steel #funny memes #video game memes #persona memes #trails #emma millstein #alisa reinford #fanservice

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He is guided by the Emblems.

#fire emblem engage #alear fire emblem #fire emblem engage alear #fire emblem #jrpg #jrpg games #fe alear

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I'm starting to wonder if the summoner summons all these dragon antagonists to counter eachothers apocalypses

#veyle fire emblem #lilith fire emblem #forging bonds #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #fire emblem engage #feh

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OP discovers a college is offering a Fire Emblem course with an optional grading system based on FE7 Nino's growths (link to post)

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Fair reminder that this is not meant to dunk on @bigklingy. I just needed to get this opinion out for a while now.

I heard a take on Shido being better than Adachi. And I need to absolutely say this flat out: I’m not buying it. You’re going to need a major role check before you can give me a Persona take like that.

And I actually like Shido as an antagonist more than most people do. Don’t get me wrong, without many of the spin offs expanding on Adachi as a character, I would have agreed.

But as someone who watched the Persona 4 The Golden Animation and know his story in P4AU, I’m sorry, but again. I actually really like @bigklingy’s takes: be it with Fire Emblem Engage and Rex from Xenoblade 2. But there are some opinions I need to but my foot down on, and this is one of them. Unless he has a VERY, very good reasoning behind his logic (which I doubt he does) I can’t bring myself to agree with his take.

This may be my Persona 4 biases talking, and I tend to value the under appreciated games and anime more. That and I loved Johnny Yong Bosch’s role as Adachi. And as much as I know Bigklingy and many other Persona fans may disagree with this: I prefer Adachi over Maruki (Maruki is my second favorite Persona antagonists).

And one last important take on the Persona series as a whole, Antagonists as a whole is something I don’t think Persona is good at. To me, Persona is at its best because it focuses on humanity overcoming its weaknesses. To me, that is the purpose that Nyx, Erebus, Persona 4’s shadow boss fights (Adachi included) and many others are best known for. The Gods we fight in Persona are only “gods” because we humans gave power to them (albeit unconsciously).

#tohru adachi #Shido #persona 4 golden #persona 5 royal

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I heard a take on Shido being better than Adachi. And I need to absolutely say this flat out: I’m not buying it. You’re going to need a major role check before you can give me a Persona take like that.

And I actually like Shido as an antagonist more than most people do. Don’t get me wrong, without many of the spin offs expanding on Adachi as a character, I would have agreed.

But as someone who watched the Persona 4 The Golden Animation and know his story in P4AU, I’m sorry, but again. I actually really like @bigklingy’s takes: be it with Fire Emblem Engage and Rex from Xenoblade 2. But there are some opinions I need to but my foot down on, and this is one of them. Unless he has a VERY, very good reasoning behind his logic (which I doubt he does) I can’t bring myself to agree with his take.

This may be my Persona 4 biases talking, and I tend to value the under appreciated games and anime more. That and I loved Johnny Yong Bosch’s role as Adachi. And as much as I know Bigklingy and many other Persona fans may disagree with this: I prefer Adachi over Maruki (Maruki is my second favorite Persona antagonists).

And one last important take on the Persona series as a whole, Antagonists as a whole is something I don’t think Persona is good at. To me, Persona is at its best because it focuses on humanity overcoming its weaknesses. To me, that is the purpose that Nyx, Erebus, Persona 4’s shadow boss fights (Adachi included) and many others are best known for. The Gods we fight in Persona are only “gods” because we humans gave power to them (albeit unconsciously).

#persona 4 #persona series #persona 5

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Engage has some really good unique battle dialogues ngl (especially Alear’s)

highlights include:

Chapter 5 Alear vs Nelucce - Alear would not hesitate to shoot Nelucce with a glock if guns existed in FE

Chapter 7 Alear vs Goldmary + Rosado - Alear is so fucking done

Chapter 10 Alcryst + Diamant vs Corrupted Morion - ough agh ow

Chapter 14 Alear vs Zephia - Zephia calls Alear a l*zard

Chapter 17 Hortensia + Ivy vs Corrupted Hyacinth - ough agh ow

Chapter 18 Lindon vs Abyme - get her ass, old man

Chapter 20 Alear vs Griss - Griss asks Alear if they’re into sadomasochism in a kinda suggestive tone and Alear doesn’t even dignify that with an answer lmao

Chapter 21 Alear vs Dark Veyle - agh ourgh ow

Chapter 21 Mauvier vs Zephia + Griss - get their asses, old man

Chapter 23 Alear vs Zephia - something about the existential dread of living exponentially longer than the people around you

Chapter 23 Alear vs Griss - this convo’s so fucking funny. Alear is immune to transphobia now. they have become ungovernable (also they ask an innocent question that causes Griss to fly off the fucking handle while they’re standing there like 🧍)

Chapter 23 Veyle vs Zephia + Griss - something about being seen only for what others wanted you to be instead of yourself

Chapter 23 Mauvier vs Zephia + Griss - agh ough ouch

Chapter 24 Alear + Veyle vs Past Alear - SCREAMING CRYING CAT PICTURE

Chapter 25 - all of them. oof ouch. sitting staring at a wall

Final chapter Alear + Veyle vs Sombron - 🫵 GET HIS ASS, KIDS (Alear pulls out the uno reverse and calls Sombron pathetic while Veyle laughs at him LMAO)

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solm palace 🌅

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Yes! I wish I was Rean…

#jrpg #jrpg games #trails #trails of cold steel #rean schwarzer #emma millstein #cold steel

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On Eveyle in Heroes

hi so. there was this voiceline of eveyle's going around, right.

The other Veyle does not seem to awaken here... Did you murder her for me? How sweet!

And like the obvious gut punch reaction is. what the fuck. did summoning kill normal veyle. i posit. no. it did not. i posit--

the inverse is also true.

Before I came here, I was on a search for my kin, and I kept waking up in unfamiliar places. Thankfully, that hasn't happened since I came to this world.

This is a voiceline from Veyle: Gentle Dragon.

So. A few things. Veyle referrencing Eveyle means that this is NOT a post-canon Veyle. Considering her other voicelines on being a defect and dragonstones I'd say she's a lategame Veyle who hasn't quite hit her big character moment yet (which was murdering Eveyle. Go figure.)

And obviously Eveyle can't exist in a post-canon state either (she would be dead), so Eveyle comes from some nebulous mid/late-game state before Veyle's big moment as well.

So. These two come from. the same point in time.

Another thing. Emblems in Askr have physical forms. Let's here it from Mr Of Beginnings himself.

As an Emblem, I am not accustomed to being corporeal. I can fight as a Hero here��and even eat!

This is a quote from Emblem Marth. Somehow, summoning gives the usual incorporeal Emblems a physical form, even though they are nothing more than spirits.

And let me be clear here. FEH is the definite nail in the coffin that Emblems are not the characters themselves. Let's have Mr Of Beginnings clarify for us one more time -

1. The original Marth dwells in this land as a Hero? An odd circumstance. 2. Do I resemble the Marth you know at all? Or is he truly different?

Listen to me. Look me in the eyes. Emblems are artificial recreations of a person based on outside expectations of that person. They are people, but they are still creations with a purpose.

What I'm getting at here is blatantly obvious.

Eveyle - what is she again? Eveyle is an artifical creation of Zephia's, one meant to embody Sombron's will, based on what she and Sombron perceive that Veyle should be. That Eveyle is not simply some "amplified fell dragon instincts" should be abundantly clear not only in how Zephia was able to control Hortensia in an identical manner (Hortensia is not a Fell Dragon, she is a human girl) as well as the infamous helmet needed to induce this personality in Veyle after Veyle begins rebelling against Zephia's spell.

Eveyle is not some form of magic DID, and is not meant to be.

What I think is that Veyle: Gentle Dragon and Veyle: Fell Succesor are the from the same world and used to share one body. Being summoned to Askr gave each of them an individual form, through the same magic that gave bodies to the Emblems. Therefore, because they're no longer occupying the same brain, they obviously can't sense each other anymore, either.

So no, there was no murder involved.

......the potential narrative in this is actually really interesting.... like yes obviously Eveyle is the embodiment of the expectations placed on Veyle and Veyle killing Eveyle is ultimately symbolic of Veyle taking agency of her own life, abandoning her desire for love from her father in favor of the family that actually loves her back, flaws and all.

But to give this construct of both literal magic and narrative significance its own agency and personhood.... hm. hm hm. you can do some interesting things with that.

#veyle #fire emblem engage #fire emblem heroes #fire emblem

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Saw a mutual from the Engage JPN fandom talking about this on Twitter, and they bring up a really solid point—it's not that Engage has no worldbuilding, but that a lot of its worldbuilding is scattered throughout things like bond conversations and supports and flavor text. For me, it's really fun, because as you go through these things, information on Elyos is gradually revealed like piecing together a puzzle.

BUT... that's not the case for more casual players. For those who just do one playthrough without digging too deeply into things like supports and the flavor text, the worldview does end up seeming pretty thin, and the prevailing opinion from players kind of assumes that it is, which is a shame.

It ALSO doesn't help that (from what me and friends have noticed), Treehouse failed to translate several little details brought up in the character profiles that DO help to expand on the world.

How Vander's profile clarifies the way Lythos priests live (in distant villages away from Lythos Castle), or how Louis' profile mentions that most Firenese retainers are nobles, and that him becoming one as a commoner is rare. Or how Merrin's profile explicitly states that women in Solm are the ones who inherit positions of power, over the men. All things brought up in the Japanese version, but not mentioned in translation at all.

Mutual also pointed out that this is why the manga has been so well-received, even with people who didn't like the original game—because the mangaka actually incorporates information from the supports and aspects of Elyos worldbuilding into the main plot. And on that? I'd agree.

While I understand that Engage is Alear's story first and foremost, and that the main plot focuses more on the conflicts between dragons rather than the human struggles that surround it (which is an interesting approach in itself tbh), it's understandable how those looking at it with a more casual glance/superficial eye would think that there's not much to it.

But there is! I find Elyos to honestly be such a fun and fascinating world, and for those who DO care to dig deeper, there really are a lot of fun details about the nations and characters to chew on.