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People aren't complaining hard enough about the botting, maybe.

PoR is in a weird situation when it comes to legendaries/mythic units. Its direct continuation, RD, takes place only 3 years afterwards. All of the big grandeur and fanfare that occurs at the end of a game (character endings, tales of the wonderful things they did afterwards) are left out of PoR, giving it the impression of a game left with unfinished business. It's hard to justify why characters who are present in both games like Ike and Elincia and Sanaki should get a PoR legendary when their RD version is the one that effectively "finishes" the Tellius arc. Meanwhile, Blazing Sword and Binding Blade have a 20 year time gap and none of the lords from Blazing Sword are playable in the main story of Binding Blade. Having legendary Eliwood and Hector be from Blazing Sword is fine because in Binding Blade, 20 years later, one of them is too ill to battle anymore and the other one died. Blazing Sword is effectively the end to Eliwood's and Hector's (and Lyn's and Ninian's) stories while RD is a continuation of Ike's and Elincia's and Sanaki's. I guess Greil could work as a PoR legendary since he's not alive in RD.

If they make an Awakening banner that doesn't include Noire, I'll be shocked. Yeah, Awakening is a bit stricter about cross-generation banners than Fates is, but they still had that one banner with Exalt Chrom, the Morgans, and Gerome as the freebie. So if they decide to not just release Noire, Kellam, and Vaike all at once I'll just be confused.

Perhaps, although Soren was popular enough to be placing within top 2 last year. And with the demote m!Byleth getting a prf weapon while Soren didn't, I think it motivated his fans to vote for him harder. Soren fans were definitely voting for him to get a Brave alt. Meanwhile, Tormod in a bit of a different situation where he just wants to score as high as he can amongst Tellius characters not already in the game because at this point his votes are most likely "put him in the damn game already!" votes and ... he's technically in the damn game. I don't think anyone voting for him is doing it to get him a Brave alt this year.

Apparently CYL8 is the year of Heroes screwing over the characters I'm voting for, between Reinhardt getting a Rearmed alt now and Tormod being added with a desert alt in the middle of voting. It's such bad timing for both of them that it almost feels targeted.

Wait, what. Japanese Tormod being voiced by Japanese Sharena is kinda breaking my brain a little here XD;

Yeah, I was hoping that if Tormod could get his CYL rank up high enough, IS would have to put him on a regular banner someday hopefully with Muarim and Vika. I wouldn't be so annoyed with him debuting as a seasonal unit if I had confidence that he'd eventually migrate to a regular banner. But Tellius just has too many characters competing for spots and he's a dude, so I'm not optimistic I'll see him there anytime soon. I might be less annoyed if he got a prf weapon along with the rest of the banner, but prf-less seasonal units aren't good enough to get them I suppose. I do feel bad complaining because he at least exists, but still ... the seasonal units just aren't the same as getting a default form, since the seasonal units are railroaded into talking about things related to the season they're repping. At least he still has his dignity, unlike Saleh in a bunny suit.

You know ... I'm aware people will tell me that I should be happy that my favorite character even made it into FEH at this point when Fire Emblem Fan is still waiting for Brom and the like. But I'm really not. Didn't get a prf because demote-not-from-3H, his alt is literally the same weapon type color and movement as what his regular self would be, and it drops right in the middle of CYL voting so it's definitely going to siphon off votes from him because now people will consider him as being "in" and it'll tank his score forever. And Nino fucking stole his extra move gimmick too and he can't use any of the tempest skills because ranged unit. I really should be happy, but I'm all sorts of pissed right now.

I just kind of assume at this point that Micaiah bias and Sanaki bias also apparently extends to their barely-a-character-in-her-own-games ancestor. But not to their other is-actually-the-reason-this-game-exists-and-is-alive ancestor, because male.

Because the U.S. is fucking insane It's the NRA. All that sweet, sweet gun lobby money going to politicians to keep gun control from passing ever because apparently scaring the shit out of people that "THEY'RE GONNA TAKE YER GUNS" makes them profit. Or something. Apparently, surveys have shown time and again that the vast majority of Americans actually want better gun control laws, and we can't get anything done because a small group of elected nitwits are beholden to the fucking gun lobby.

What is it with this fanbase and snakes Also, thanks on the spelling of Hraesvelgr. I didn't feel like opening up the story chapters just to look it up.

Why is Nidhoggr already in the top 5 for Heroes she's had less screentime than even fucking Gullveig did at this point in the story I feel like I'd understand Ratatoskr and the other sister whose name I don't want to look up how to spell right now if they were top 5 for Heroes, but seriously?

A bit disappointed that Reinhardt fell out of top 20, but with him getting an alt literally half a month ago and Engage existing, I'm not too surprised. Maybe I should be happy he lasted as long as he did there. I'd be happy with any of Alfonse, Alfred, Leif, Takumi, Diamant, and m!Corrin (yes, shock of all fucking shocks ...) getting a CYL alt on the guys' side. I would be okay with Leo too. For the female side ... I guess Elincia, Sharena, and Ivy.

Hmm. On the one hand, if we get freaking Altina again I will be super unhappy. On the other hand, I'm not planning on pulling on this banner, so it works out in my favor anyway.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It's kind of weird they're starting the anniversary stuff earlier when they never did that before, but I guess they have their reasons ... whatever they are.

Hm. I wonder if they've just decided that they're going to have CYL in mid-January now. Gonna go vote for Tormod. Also one obligatory Reinhardt "I like him for reals, not as a meme" vote.

Hmmm ... does Fodlan have anything resembling a desert?

I really don't want Tormod to get an alt before his base form. If he gets an alt, his CYL rank is gonna tank and since he's not a girl he's going to be stuck in alt hell forever. Pretty sure that's basically what happened to Zihark. Tellius also has a shitload of characters who aren't in the game at all, so it's more competitive than a game that's already running low on characters. As for deserts, I suppose Nabata and Solm are reasonable options, as is Jehanna. As for which one I think it will be ... how much do you guys think IS wants to push Engage as the shiny new thing? If so, then it'll probably be Solm. If Engage doesn't get special treatment, it's really up in the air.

Her non-damaged arts are drawn at an angle that makes it seem like she's totally looking down on you. That said, it makes her facial expressions look a little ... squished ... in the attacking and special art.

My actual pulls were very meh/10. Didn't get either of the staff sisters, got one Lara who was -atk, and didn't even get any off-focuses or 4-star specials. The one thing that made this session not be 0.5/10 was that I did legitimately pull Reinhardt. Somewhere between pulls 31-35. And he was -atk. I am not amused. EDIT: Actually, I got 2 Laurents near the beginning, who is a merge project, so it wasn't that terrible I guess. Still, I can't believe I didn't get either Safy or Tina. Or more than one Lara.

I will say that it's super nice that Tina and Safy are bringing new skills into the pool. Wrathful Tempo =/= Poetic Justice, sure, but if you just want a tier-4 wrathful you can get either one now. And I think Safy is the first normal pool unit bringing ploy 4 into the pool, since the other two were Rearmed Plumeria and Sonya. Lara bringing Rockslide Dance 2 is also pretty cool, although I do hope they'll consider making a 5-star normal pool dancer who could bring one of the 4th tier dance skills with them.

Don't know anything about Hopes' lore, but I imagine that if they make fallen f!Shez, they'll also have fallen m!Shez as well. That's the pattern they've followed for Robin and Corrin, and I'd be shocked if m!Byleth doesn't get a fallen alt this year. Because the male avatars are still popular enough to make them money.

The one major thing I don't like about this banner is that they're choosing to drop three female characters all at once. Even with Perne being the GHB and knocking out one male character, Thracia just ... doesn't have a lot of female characters. Instead of doubling up on the staff sisters, they could've put ... I don't know, Trewd/Trude/whatever this guy's name as a demote and make Lara 5-star or something. I guess you could kick out Safy for a more coherent theme. Speaking of theme though, I really wanted Reinhardt on a Friege-themed banner with Amalda, Fred, and Eyrios. I guess Rearmed/Ascended/Attuned Olwen will have to carry them if they're ever getting in.

......... You know, I really wanted a special version of Reinhardt. But I was hoping that he'd be Ascended or even Attuned. Not freakin' Rearmed! But I'll shut up and take this.

1. Whoops, that is what I meant. Also, noted. Guess I won't be giving Nagi Hardy Fighter after all. 2. All right, cool. Just wanted to double check before I wasted an extra Vital Astra on her.