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Erk. I like his design and I just think he's kinda funny, in a straight man in a comedy duo way.

Aside from combat mechanics, removing Merlinus from the battlefield would be nice. In Sacred Stones we got Eirika (or Ephraim on his route) as an access point to the supply convoy, and I prefer it by far. I've never had trouble keeping Merlinus alive but a mobile convoy isn't so irritating to deal with. I'd also like Mark to not be in the game at all, self-insert characters like Corrin are okay I suppose but Mark is just straight up the player and I'm not a fan. Also- this is a small one but when Lucius and Raven get a paired ending, for them to just be a couple. Their supports already have Raven all but proposing to Lucius, might as well properly commit to it if they remake 7.

I like the weapon triangle as a mechanic and prefer separate triangles for weapons and magic, but it'd be nice to see it rebalanced so that it actually matters through the game and also so that axe users aren't at such a disadvantage tactically versus sword and lance users, in the sense of "How useful is this unit for an entire map". Not a fan of bows being stuck in the triangle, there's at least some reasoning behind the weapon and magic triangles but there's no reason for bows to be involved and archers are already bad enough. No need to make them even worse by giving them a disadvantage against certain weapons.

If you're playing remotely efficiently, probably Innes. I prefer taking it slow and grinding, particularly in fe8 where there's plenty opportunity to do so, and I prefer Neimi for being able to promote to a mounted unit that can use swords. Although honestly in most cases past early game, I end up using magic users over archers anyway. There's just very little an archer can do that a decent magic user can't meanwhile magic users have better range, staff use after promotion (or before in the case of healers), and any unit that can promote to bishop gets a massive damage bonus against monsters which make up a lot of fe8's enemy units. I do prefer Innes on support conversation front though, I'll admit.

This image pretty much sums up what I'm working on right now. On a whim I combined Colm and Cormag's sprites (and drew in a few portions myself) and then thought "Well what if I stick a homestuck sprite in Fire Emblem?" The difference is near entirely in graphics and text styling, although every reference to Eirika's gender has been edited which also meant altering a few lines beyond simple word-swapping since for example "I'm your brother and brothers are supposed to protect their brothers." "Well I'm your brother and brothers are supposed to worry about their brothers" doesn't quite work. Currently editing battle and map sprites, as a nice break from killing my eyes editing all of Eirika's lines. If nothing else, doing something silly like this is a nice low-pressure way to get used to the tools.