I know that I'm probably a little late to this discussion but I feel that the (Character Creation) methods that worked best for the series when it came to all around likeability at least were the 1: Blazing Sword method (Implementation/execution), 2: FE 12 Method (Bane and Boon choices/personality, 3: Awakening method (Cause we shouldn't have to go back to the affinity system).