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I reckon I'll give this one a shot too. I already have an idea brewing...

It's two votes per person, right?

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I think I'll make my debut with this one. ^_^ I've been inspired by this comp. to create a world to set some of my responses in, so it should be pretty fun! (And good practice, I plan way more than I write.)

Hard Classic Reset A little bit of grinding Nohr As is the way I intend to always play Fire Emblem, unless it's a lunatic run. Because the concept of lunatic classic frightens me. Hard, because after playing Awakening Normal I feel like Hard's the best thing to jump into, not to easy but not crazy lunatic. Classic reset, because I love playing to not lose a single character, it's really testing. One day I'll do a Classic non-reset...maybe Hoshido. A little bit of grinding assuming that reclassing can yield skills somehow, and bringing up to standard units I really want to use, and Nohr because Nohr looks awesome.

From the EU. I'll just have to wait, got a PAL 3DS. Fortunately I have a buying backlog to catch up on and Record Breaker coming in Autumn, and EOU 2 in early 2016 and maybe Bravely Second coming first, all to distract me from spoiling myself. >_< And I'll need the distraction.

I've mentioned it in the other thread but I thought I'd come here too. Thanks to all the translators for your hard work, and a particular thanks goes to A ShadowOfChaos for your hard work translating the videos but in a neat video format, making analysis and viewing much easier. You guys are the best.

Thanks to all the translators for your hard work! We'd be lost without you, bringing joy to so many. A particular thanks to Kirokan for going to extra mile and editing the translations onto articles for easy viewing, an extra bit of work which can often be taken for granted.

Maybe you can capture bosses, but only certain ones? And I'm liking not Owain Odin and his special ability. Hopefully that translates well into English and I can spend some time thinking up cool tome names. ^_^

In challenging that argument, you get some very interesting conclusions. Take being against dating someone for their race. In a personal view, it's simply a preference and it acceptable in the sense that its just biological wiring, as long as the reasoning isn't racist, e.g. ideas of racial superiority, segregation or inferiority. Similarly, you can apply the biological wiring for arguments against incest and homosexual pairings, but only in a personal sense - you not feeling any attraction for the other, rather than a discriminatory sense. We can now look at things from a general point of view. It's largely accepted that being against a type of relationship generally simply due to race, such as the mixed race couples mentioned earlier, when the personal arument above doesn't apply, is unacceptable. This is without personal investment, it can only be due to racist views hence is seen as abhorrent - the unacceptable aspect comes from the racist views held. Now we can apply this to being against a type of relationship due to it being a same sex relationship, without personal investment such an opinion can only be held due to homophobic views. So whether or not this is abhorrent depends on whether homophobic views are acceptable or not, which I'll get into later. In the interest of patterns I'll now look at being against incestual relarionships, using the previously established logic this can only be held in a non personal scenario if one holds anti incest views. Now we can compare racism to homophobia to incestism (I'll use the word as being against incest for ease of discussion). Racism is abhorrent because it discriminates against someone for something they cannot control, with no non-stereotypical justification for it, typically. With homophobia he same is true, but there is a slight change, a homophonic relationship cannot lead to children by normal means, hence a traditionalist or religious view of relationships can be held against it. The development of technology and social methods for having a child however, means that such an opinion cannot be justified for a general basis, without forcing your opinion on someone else however, such that tolerance should be applied - though I do not wish to argue on whether it's morally acceptable to hold such an opinion. Here's the interesting bit. Let's jump to incest. Considering things rationally I'll ignore social stigma as justification for incestism, and just go for the biological point of view, genes. Off the top of my head, incestual childbirth messes up genes somewhat, hence there is a significant biological risk to an unborn, unchoosing child. So it seems acceptable to justify incestism opinions being forces onto another through legislation, as the relationship negatively affects other people (and not through offense). However, not all relationships lead to children. As the crux of this argument depends on a child, thinking purely rationally incest ahould be acceptable as long as no children are produced. Now for my on topic bit. As a man who at the very least has an interest in other men, I have no problem with same sex pairings in Fire Emblem, in fact I openly welcome it. Now implementation is a little tricky. The some bi, some gay and some straight route seems wise in the interest of realism, but the idea that the Avatar can magically make every female fall in love with him in Awakening was sketchy at best, so that could be used as a springboard for the Avatar can magically make everyone bi. Considering that for both of them half the issue is biological wiring (unless you want to argue on what love actually is), this doesn't seem like an unnatural jump. From a pairing point of view this makes sense, everyone can pair with who he wants, but then you have the issue of character - your orientation defines your character just as much as your race does, though I philosophically believe that you choose how it defines your character, but tangent - and FE supports are all about interactions, a wholly bi cast would limit that. I believe that the best way forwards is to have everyone magically able to fall in love with eachother, but with the some bi, some straight some gay clause. This stops every support being romantic and allows character development, while giving the Avatar the option to romanace everyone but straight guys or girls of the same gender, or gay guys or lesbian girls of the opposite gender.