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teaveetamer · 2 years

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Please rank all Fire Emblem games you've played from gayest to least gay

Oh my god ok I'm gonna do this from least gay to most gay because I think it's more fun that way

Least gay: Fire Emblem Awakening. Granted it's been awhile since I played it and maybe I just missed a lot of it the first go around, but I don't recall feeling a lot of gay vibes from it.

6) Probably FE4. Not that FE4 doesn't have gay potential (it has so much gay potential) I just don't think it was fully realized. It's an older game, no supports or anything. There's so much they could do with it. Shannan and Oifey raising Seliph as gay dads??? Plus, you can't tell me that Sigurd, Quan, and Eldigan weren't all banging.

5) Fates. Look as much as I love Fates and all the gay ships in Fates I think it's still got some risidual Awakening on it and they didn't want to go too hard on the gay because they wanted to keep the marriage mechanic front and center. Niles and Rhajat are carrying the game hard to keep it from going full Awakening.

4) SoV. There's even CGs that look like boyfriends arguing over the best color for the kitchen backsplash okay. Oh, and it has the series' one (1) instance of an explicitly gay man that is not related to the avatar character in any way. Not higher because there's like no gay ladies tho.

3) Sacred Stones, maybe? This one is hard to place because I haven't finished it, but... I mean it's clear that everyone wants to bone Ephraim, right? It's not just me? Everyone is into him? Even the final boss? Cool. Eirika has some nice gay with some of the ladies as well.

2) Three Houses. Blue Lions truly are the BL house. I don't think Dimitri can go five feet without meeting another man who wants to lovingly rail him. He has sexual tension with basically every man he's ever been on screen with. Mercedes present for the ladies as well.

Gayest: Path of Radiance. Good god you cannot go two feet without stepping in something ridiculously gay. The fanfic practically writes itself. Ike has a cat boyfriend and a tsundere boyfriend. The pretty heron man gets sold to a creepy old dude and then is rescued by his boyfriend. The Lion King has his own Dedue. It's just. *Chef's kiss*. I'm not too far in Radiant Dawn yet but my lord, I'm pretty sure Tormod and Sothe banged and there is no heterosexual explanation for Heather.

"But Vee!" I hear you all saying, "there's no explicit same sex love in that game like there is in 3H/Fates/SoV! Shouldn't those games be higher" to which I say... yeah well it was made in the mid 2000's. If you think homophobia is bad now, think about how bad it was 20 years ago!

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ceridawn · 3 years

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Unlikely New Friends

This is all going to be bullet points, but I hope people will still enjoy it.

It starts with Tas finding 7 strange little orbs. Their was an evil wizard and other things as well, but they don't really matter here.

Anyway, he pockets them. Into a pouch, forgotten about aside from when he occasionally digs through his pouch.

Here is the thing. Forgetting is not being forgotten. So their inhabitants wait and watch.

Years pass. Tas makes friends, goes on all sorts of adventures. But even the most skilled make mistakes. Even kender luck runs out.

He is wondering what death will be like as a goblin sword swings down. Then there a flash of red light and a strange squirrel is between him and the blade. Another flash.

Swords are great and conducting electricity.

Well, Pachirisu showed herself. Let herself out of her pokeball. They others may as come out too. They were getting bored anyway.

Pachirisu sticks with Tas. They fit. Through war and dragons and time.

(One day there will be a dwarf and a kender and a tree. In the branches of that tree will play an electric rodent who has felled dragons.)

Honedge chooses the warrior woman. They see inside her an ambition and skills to complement theirs.

(It is said the Blue Lady is so skilled her sword doesn't even need her hand to guide it. Lord Soth is perhaps not as surprised as he should be to find he is not the first ghost in Kitiara's service.)

Flint would like to be left out of this, thank you very much. Unfortunately for him, squirtle in no way agrees.

(There is a boat and a splash. There is a sinking dwarf. The bright white light. A larger turtle surfaces, pulling his dwarf along with him.)

Caramon wishes he had gotten the dog. Or the fox or honestly anything but this tiny pink thing. Happiny thinks her new loud trainer is funny but knows he is kind.

(Years later, as he sits and watches his brother burn with fever, Caramon is grateful. So grateful.)

Togepi chooses Tanis as the second least likely to drop him. Tanis takes the egg because no one else wants it.

(Years from now, Togekiss will fly through the sky. He will have a power to rival dragons and a prince to protect.)

Eevee picks Raistlin because he has steady hands and does not rush into fights. Raistlin supposes there are worse companions to have.

(One day, there will be a ghost. Eevee is not a fighter, never has been. But Raistlin has been a good friend to her. And she will keep him. Her fur turns black as her teeth snap. She can't drive him away completely, but Fistandantilus never planned on an umbreon.)

Sturm gets a puppy. Knight have worked with hounds before, even in this one is odd. Houndour chose him for many reasons, none of which are ever known.

(Sturm always wanted to slay a dragon. Houndoom throws himself at reds fearlessly, a shield for his friends. After all, he does not burn.)

How all this changes things is a story too big for me to write. Also, pokemon are stupidly overpowered outside of their own universe so they probably destroy the story completely.

#dragonlance week #tanis #sturm #kitiara #tas #flint fireforge #raistlin #caramon #my wriitng #dragonlance #pokemon #unlikely encounter #late but finally done

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mwritesink · 7 years

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Reaction to Radiant Dawn: Part 1

(Spoilers under the cut, as well as having the cut there for length)

Pretty much, I’m having enough fun that I’m planning more play throughs: a powerful women one where I pour all my BXP into female characters, and a Queer Dawn where I pair off characters only in same gender supports.

It took me a moment to get used to the support system, since I’m more used to the GBA and DS games where everyone has a set list of people that they can build support relationships with. Once I realized that, yes, I can support with anyone if they’ve fought next to each other long enough that got me to think more about who I often pair off with each other in battle (which also lead to the breakneck sprint of Leonardo and Edward to an A support, with Aran and Ilyana plodding along at a slower pace to a B rank). I can see how people would be frustrated with RD’s support system, becuase it gives everyone stock phrases that can be easily interchangeable for every potential support conversation.

As much as I like this set up becuase of the queering potential, the lack of substance does bother me. Support conversations, when done well, can add depth to a character in revealing pieces of their past and their personalities. An example is my favorite support from Awakening: Maribelle and Gaius. It shows that Maribelle is more than a shallow, high society lady adn that Gaius is more than a candy-loving thief through a discussion of when Gaius was forced to frame Maribelle’s father for a crime. Another, more subtle, example is the support thread between Clive and Lukas in Shadows of Valentia. Though the bonuses they give each other keep rising, there’s a sense that the characters are becoming more emotionally distant from one another.

I rather like that Micaiah doesn’t like Ike, and that it’s believable for her not to like him becuase of her background.While Ike was not the person to decide that Begnoin would occupy Daein post-war, and was not the one that had the corrupt occupational rulers and army harass and abuse the people of Daein, he was the figure head and hero of the Crimean army who you could say was directly responsible for Daein’s defeat and subsequent subjugation. Micaiah’s dislike makes visceral sense. You can tell her all the above facts, facts that she knows, but it won’t change her dislike of Ike becuase it’s not a dislike based on logic and facts. her dislike is based on what Ike represents to her, to Daein, emotionally. At this point in the game’s story, she does not know Ike personally, only as the face of Daein’s conquerors, so we shall see if her opinion on him changes in the future or not. Also her line about Ike being the father of Sothe’s children just can’t be missed or taken away. Best quote of Part 1 by far.

On the one hand, I don’t really care about the furry people, in the effect that I can take or leave it as a class type. It’s just another prop of the game. There are also more things to worry about with using Laguz units, becuase it’s very tempting to have them run out on their own to fight, but then their transformation meter runs out and you have an unarmed unit in the middle of a pack of enemies. It’s an interesting element that helps Radiant Dawn (and Path of Radiance) stand out from the rest of the series. This is especially notable since Fire Emblem is a series where you could argue there’s a lot of “same old, same old” in the basic mechanics of each game. it’s awkward though how the script uses “sub-human” as a slur for the Laguz, when the word “monster” is right there for the taking and sufficiently hate filled in the right context. One of the guards in Part 1′s prison break chapter screams “A Sub-human! It’s a Sub-human!” It’s a clunky sentence. “A monster! It’s a monster!” however reads a lot cleaner and sounds more like something a person would say. If the translators really wanted to keep “sub-human” around then they could use it for characters with a noble background to refer to the Laguz in “polite” company while also making their bigotry against the Laguz apparent.

Where things get fascinating is more int eh politics and the relationships as a whole between the human kingdoms, the Laguz tribes, and the people with a mixed heritage. In other games, namely FE 4 and 5 and expanding ahead into Awakening, people with special birthmarks or brands are seen as special and honored, who have a great destiny hanging in their fates. In the Tellius games, people with the birthmarks/brands are (mostly) those who have a mixed human and Laguz heritage, and are reviled for their bloodline. It’s a flip of the usual expectation of world building, given how brands had been used in the past.

And speaking of flipping expectations in world building, there’s Pelleas. Now going into playing this game, I had spoiled myself with the knowledge that Pelleas is not Ashnard’s true heir, and the identity of that true heir. However Pelleas design sets it up for making the lie he leads plausible. In the previous games, every “Lord” character is designed to feature blue in some way. There are exceptions in Celica and Leif, but they also are in settings where there is another “Lord” who does abide by the rule of blue: Alm and Seliph respectively. Most “Lord” design choices feature blue hair, this is also how Ike gets identified, design wise, as the “Lord” of Path of Radiance. Micaiah in Radiant Dawn has a blue ribbon tying her hair back and a blue scarf that gets traded for a blue cape for her first two classes. Her third tier promotion class gives her a pale blue dress.

Now Pelleas gets introduced. He has blue hair and robes of a Fire Emblem Lord, and begins fulfilling the expectation that long time FE players had been somewhat conditioned to expect, or at least allow as plausible. As it gets revealed that he’s a fraud, between the characters in-game becoming more suspicious of him, and the player keeping track of the things he says that don’t add up, he becomes expectation whiplash.

Overall, I don’t understand yet why this FE game didn’t do as well commercially, as I am fully engaged with the plot, and the characters that have been allowed characterization thus far, and feel challenged without feeling like I’m smacking my head against a brick wall.

Next major opinion update will occur when I finish part 2

#Fire emblem #radiant dawn #M's plays radiant dawn and has opinions

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