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There's nothing in that those supports that say incest to me - when FE games go for incest vibes, they aren't shy about it. I'm actually surprised at this support because I didn't expect Leo to basically say that he kinda wishes that he hadn't been so strong because it meant he kind of got left to take care of himself and ended up lonely because of it.

Thank you for the links everyone! f!Kamui and Foleo's is way more adorable than I thought it would be, awww.

Hmm, how hard is it to get supports up in the Nohr version if you don't have grinding available? There are all kinds of supports I want to get but now I'm worried I won't be able to :/

Thank you for doing this, so many of these designs are really cool.

Good point, I don't know why I thought that since it's f!Kamui who would be S ranking her. I guess maybe in that case you don't get Kanna at all? It would be the same with male Kamui/Zero then, right? No bio kids from that relationship, but I swear someone at some point in the hype thread mentioned that the same sex couples can adopt so maybe they're just handwaving it and pretending you randomly found a part dragon baby somewhere.

If I'm remembering right, some people were unhappy with the fact that Tharja could be super obsessed with a female Robin - just as much as the male Robin - and you couldn't S rank her with a woman. My guess is that this is a way to kind of give them what they wanted especially if it turns out these are the same characters from FE:A. Making her one of the children means that you're not losing out on a child if you do decide to S rank her with a female Kamui.

They advertised that the third route would be free to download until a certain date in June 2016, right? I hope that really does mean it's free and it's free for us overseas too.

Going from that statement, people who want male Kamui/Zero need to go Nohr, people who want female Kamui/Shara need to go Hoshido, or just wait for the third route.

I missed so much today, I have a question - once you make the choice on who to side with, you aren't able to ever control the characters on the "other" side again, right? Or plot things happen and you can later on?

This is kinda interesting but all of my (so far) favorite characters have children with designs I'm not crazy about and the characters I'm kinda meh on have kids whose designs I like.

Male Kanna is much cuter than female Kanna lol. So we're reasonably sure that the A+ supports are going to be female/female only? Dang.

Ninja'd. I'm not really sure how they can spin S-rank relationships between siblings for NA as anything other than romantic when they produce children lol.

She looks identical to Felicia's kid outside of hair color too so I'm guessing Kamui's kid always looks the same, and I bet gender of your character determines the gender of your child just like Morgan.

That's a good point about Nohr, it sounds like there's no grinding available so passing skills down to them will be extremely difficult at least.

I feel like they're really trying to appeal to all of their audience just in different ways. For newer fans/people who liked Awakening both old and new, marriage and kids are coming back with the addition of the face rubbing and Phoenix Mode. For the older fans/people who didn't like certain things in Awakening both old and new, we have a game that's supposedly harder, a revamp of the weapons triangle and new classes. If the kids aren't integral to the story, you can probably just not recruit them so it's not a big deal, but putting them in gives people the option just like Phoenix Mode does; people don't have to use it, it's there for others who might want to. The issue is ofc how that kinda stuff affects the overall game - does Phoenix Mode/the face rubbing/kids returning have a big effect on the story at all and if it doesn't, then is it really justified to include it? Or should you spend that time on other things in the game? For IS, they probably feel like it's safer to just include it and then whoever doesn't like it can just ignore it. And I mean, looking at how people tend to operate, the people most likely to complain about things being included will still buy the game because they can ignore this stuff but the ones who might be mad that it's not there are probably more likely to skip it. In my experience anyway, it's easier to ignore stuff (especially if it turns out to be non-integral storywise) than it is to ignore that stuff you want is missing.