ExaltedViolinist

I have a big crush on Shamir but since I am going to play exclusively as female Byleth (unless they give us more gay options for male Byleth), I pray to the forces above that she is a romance option. I would feel most comfortable pairing my f!Byleth with Shamir or Edelgard considering I am not too keen on pairing her with students she isn't close friends with (like Edelgard), but I wouldn't mind digging in a larger pool if wlw romances are limited. Dorothea, Petra, Mercedes, Ingrid, Hilda and Leonie are also girls I could pair my protagonist with. If they deliver us a bit more mlm options for m!Byleth other than Lynhardt, I could possibly go for one run in which I pair him up with Seteth, Alois, Claude, Sylvain, Caspar or Raphael. In any case I'm just a chaotic bisexual starving for some lgbt rep and I'll make the most of it in this game. 😩

This is such a mood LOL! I'm definitely the type of player who would still do the same reckless thing after a close call because how beneficial it was. Granted, this is hard mode, so there's bound to be more risky plays! I still can't believe how lucky your Lance got. In my playthrough my Lance was stuck with 6 in Strength until he was like level 12! It got better, but it's still a below average Strength at this point. Gotta bank on some lucky level ups for the future...

Your Lance is having such good level ups, damn! Started a playthrough of Binding Blade yesterday, and I gotta say, my Lance is pretty good, but hasn't been THIS lucky in his first three level ups.

Do you have a favorite gemstone ? I'd love to go to England and visit the places where the 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice was shot. I always LOVED the aesthetics of this film and I'd literally die if I could just retrace Elizabeth's steps in the movie. The Cuckoo's Egg sounds like a fascinating story. I'll look this up!

Finally, a clever life motto worthy enough to be tattooed on my lower back. Isn't Ninian story relevant, though ? I didn't think she could die.

Can you share some of your fears ? I don't! :( It's an instrument I wish I could play! If time and money allows, I plan on learning how to play the violin after I'm done with school. The 'violinist' part in my username comes from an anime called Your Lie in April. The main girl from this anime plays the violin and let's just say her part in the story moved me so much to the point where I decided to make it part of the username I use almost everywhere.

Nice going on that chapter, @This boi uses Nino! I personally never saw Ninian once in any kind of battling situation (she was always back of the line), I almost forgot she could die LOL.

LeafGreen: Squirtle HeartGold: Chikorita Alpha Sapphire: Torchic Platinum: Piplup Black: Oshawott White 2: Snivy X: Chespin Sun: Rowlet As you can see, I seem to have favoritism for Grass and Water types. There's never been a Fire starter that I liked better than either the Water or Grass starter except Torchic. I'd love if the next starter I picked was the Fire type one, but I always go for a favorite, and not based on what I need, so only designs will tell!

Bouncing back the question for you! Any dubbed animes/games you enjoyed ? For games, I'd say Nier: Automata! I had the option to play in either languages, but decided to go for English because reading subtitles is somewhat distracting in a game like this. I was extremely happy with the dubbed voice acting in this game! Props to the team. For animes, I made the mistake of watching Fullmetal Alchemist/Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in English, but thankfully Vic Mignogna, Edward's English voice actor, does an amazing job at capturing the emotions of our beloved blonde-headed milk-seething goblin! Same with Alphonse's voice actresses.

Uuuuugh Ursula!! That Hector death at the end is painful for me and I ain't even playing!! Your Canas died, right ? It's a tragedy; he can kill pretty much anything with Luna, Ursula included. And with such a good level up for Rebecca too! You have my support D:

What was the book you read most recently, and what was it about ? Likes: obviously the accessibility of the material (mostly for games; original animes are usually easy to find); Dislikes: most of the time the dub is not acted as well as the original is (the emotions conveyed sound more forced); the songs aren't as good because they have to be rewritten; dubs are often cringy as hell. But one thing I noticed is that whatever I start watching first is the one I can't unhear. Most of the time I watch my animes in Japanese, but if for some reason I start watching one in English, it will be hard for me to make the switch to the original.

I'll throw in Ray for you! I think you've yet to use this little guy! I'm curious to hear what you think of him. :)

Thank you all for your input! I've been reading a lot of 'Rate this unit' threads on this forum and I've rearranged the party a bit. I think I should be good. I've got a good mix of generally favored characters, as well as a few personal favorites that might be a bit subpar.

Favorite video game series besides Fire Emblem ? Elizabeth and Darcy are obvious choices but they're just THAT good, and considering the focus is mostly on them, it's hard not to appreciate them. I also liked Jane and Mary a lot, the former speaks for itself, and the latter because I liked how outspoken she can be on things she's passionate about and I also lowkey wished Mr. Collins had noticed her crush on him.

Do you have any guilty pleasures or pet peeves ? Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Wendy (aka Gwendolyn) was on my initial list, but I was advised against her by other people! Agh, see, there's always subjectivity when it comes to making a party in FE games. Mmmh. You seem to be overall agreeing with my choices here. I might swap Lugh with Wendy when I get her and Lilina, but I'm still unsure. People seemed to really discourage my choice to pick Wendy.

Favorite novel ?

Okay so I read all of your helpful comments and I've rearranged my selection: Roy Lilina Lance Tate Lugh Ellen -> Saul/Clarine Sue Oujay Fir Miredy Ray Geese Dieck Chad -> Asthol/Cath Lalum Merlinus I'll admit, I'm a bit of a shallow player who also likes to pick characters that appear interesting to me. So I'm gonna stick with Sue on the Nomad choice. Hmmm let's see. I've decided to stick with Saul/Clarine as healers (mostly the former) but I'll be using Ellen until I get one of them. I also replaced Sofiya with Ray; I think it makes for a decent choice, and his support with his brother might come in handy ? I added Dieck; he looks nice and apparently he's decent enough. Chad and/or Asthol shall be used as thieves until I get Cath. Is Merlinus as good as he was in FE7 ? Never once did he really get me into trouble in FE7.

1- I'm still thorn whether I should use both of them or not. I like diversity in my classes mostly, but I've heard good things about this duo. I'll think about it some more! 2-3- Thanks for the tip! 4- I've heard that she becomes a pretty powerful unit once she catches up. Would that be a somewhat true statement ? 5- Interesting. Considering I will probably dump Elen, she might come in handy later on. 6- I went with the names on a Fire Emblem wiki, I haven't started the game yet. Although I believe the copy I will receive is from the 2013 translation. 7- Got it, thanks! 1- I will definitely look that up. You got me curious with this information! 2- I guess that's my answer for Sophia. I'll see what I can replace Gwendolyn with, although armored units come in really handy as walls for opponents that hit hard. I'd love to have one on hands. 3- Got it! 4- Lilina is rather slow though, isn't she ? Lugh would be a cool, speedy mage to have in the backlines. I heard good things about Alan and Dieck as well; there's just so many units to pick from! 5- Got it; Elen has been dropped.

Started a similar thread a year ago asking about the units of FE7. Finished the game today after I had to put it on pause for school and decided to try my hands on FE6 which, to this day I still thought I couldn't play until I found the fan translation. I know next to nothing about the game considering I never anticipated being able to play it, but it might be a reality! So here are the units I am considering using for this playthrough: Roy Lilina Thea Lugh Elen Clarine Sue Gwendolyn Ogier Fir Melady Sophia Geese Lance Cath (Thief) Larum (Dancer) There is a total of 14 units I plan on training to full potential, with Cath and Larum being used for other purposes (obviously thieving and dancing). Does this sound too much ? I used a slightly smaller roster in FE7 and ended up just fine, although I've heard FE6 is a bit harder than its GBA sisters. Also, I think I saw somewhere that FE6 had paths A and B to choose from, but I haven't made much research on that point. Can anyone tell me if there's a difference in difficulty between the two ? Thanks, you guys!

We need more people of color in this franchise, and I'm glad Claude has a deeper complexion than the other two main royals (although that pale model is such a crime). I'm hoping he comes from a nation with people mostly of his complexion or darker as well, and that he is a well written character. Here's hoping they pull through with dark skinned black characters next!

Ahahah! :D As a french speaker myself, it's hard for me to say the name fluently. It IS a strange choice of title, if you ask me. For being title-lover, I must say I wasn't impressed with it. I think I forgot to mention previously my love for the trailer music. Like it better than Lost in Thoughts All Alone already, so if it happens to be the game's titular track, I'm cool with it.

I don't know why, I must've had a brain short circuit, but it didn't even occur to me that relationships could be directly established into the story with canon building behind it. It would make romances a lot less eclectic and a lot more meaningful. I'd like that. A handful of canon pairings, m/f, m/m and f/f alike. Aaah, I see. Well for those characters I assumed they'd just either be bi/pan or fixed in their heterosexuality by the story like I mentioned in my initial post. And that's entirely fine by me! But I'd be expecting story-fixed LGBT characters as well if that were the case again.

I think as a concept, it'd be worth the shot. Giving the player the freedom of pairing anyone they wanted, and having these characters well written and not flamboyant or stereotypical would be interesting to see. But I understand where you're coming from. It's a risky task to put in IS' hands especially. I might just be starved for video game representation. The next Assassin's Creed gave me a taste of what it could be like! I just hope they give us a handful of characters so that we don't feel limited. Since I'm not expecting the return of children here, I don't think there should be any issue in that. I'm not sure I understand what you meant by 'what if characters showed some kind of romantic or sexual interest before the S support' ? Would you mind going over that ?

I'm just curious as to why having every character or so able to marry anyone they want any different than to have M/F marriages all across the board ? Barring a few characters fixed into a specific sexuality by the story, having characters not explicitly anything and making them anything we want them to be sounds great to me. They're just people who happen to date people of the same sex, or not. To me it doesn't have to be more complicated than that. It's an acknowledgement that we exist, and that we don't need to have specific characteristics to be. We're just as badass of a warrior as anyone on the field, except we are tied to a character of the same sex. ... unless this is what you were trying to say in case I misread something.