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Every time we see this guy he's either eating or talking about food. I didn't really need muscular male Ilyana. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

We are basing that off of this image, which appears to show the 3H version of Mila's Turnwheel. Only Hilda and the white-haired girl are greyed out, which means she should be Lysithea based on the accompanying text.

Well, at some point they'll have to deal with the fact that the Deer have more girls left than guys, so even if there is a guy-girl pattern they'd like to follow the Deer are going to mess it up sooner or later. Getting it out of the way this week would leave them with an equal number of each gender left in each house, so I think Leonie (or the other girls, but probably Leonie) still has a strong shot... ...but since everyone expects it and that's a boring bet, I'm going to live wildly and bet my imaginary internet dollars on Marianne.

Huh, her image on the official site is "190522_HP.png". That's neither the HACP_ANVY_char##_01_R_ad-0.png format they used for Dorothea thru Hilda nor the UUIDs/hashes they used for everyone else. It's like they're just making it up as they go.

Yeah, sorry if that came out snappy. It doesn't even really matter considering most people will be more concerned with the translation post, but I just like it when things are clean and efficient.

I don't really care who posts it, but can we agree to wait until both tweets are up in the future?

Ferdinand's design always struck me as the most stereotypically "noble" of the cast, and his bio does nothing to dissuade me from that opinion. Which isn't necessarily an issue, but it's as much a balancing act as any trait we've seen. I know I've been annoyed by stereotypical nobles in other franchises, so I hope they steer him well since I like his design the most among the male eagles. Yeah, no way to be sure for now, I mainly went with "Esser" due to https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ヘルマン・エッサー

He's up on the official site too, as is Hanneman. Interestingly Hanneman came with a last name, and they added Manuela's while they were at it, so I guess they get treated like real people after all. Actually transliterating them to English is kind of annoying given the different possible spellings, but my best guesses are "Hanneman von Esser" and "Manuela Casagranda."

It was only packaged in for the US. In the Japanese version it had to be downloaded, but some 4chan guys hacked the DLC servers and grabbed it earlier. It was kind of crazy--usually it's the Japanese fans spoiling FE while the English fans have to wait, not the reverse.

Black Eagles is in 3rd for me at the moment, but it's a harder race to call for the others. Ingrid, Lysithea and Marianne stand out as complete mysteries until we get at least one line of dialog from them, yet the first two are among my favorites from a design standpoint. The right (or wrong) personality/backstory could push the scales either way. So until I learn more about the women I'll lean Blue Lions on the basis of the men; I'd rank all of the lions over any of the bucks, apart from Claude.

I think you're missing my point. Yes, I am sure Hanneman would be interested in seeing it and I'm not surprised it's project-able since we've seen Edelgard doing it. The point I was trying to make is that if this was only to show it to him they could have just kept it part of a conversation scene, like "Can you try projecting your crest?" >>Project crest "Magnificent! Let's dissect--er, discuss things further." But that's not all that's happening here. You can see the calendar, the map, etc. on the screen when those have always been hidden during conversations, so they're actually giving you some kind of "Press A to use crest"-ability in the overworld. Even if this specific scene turns out to just be showing it to Hanneman, there's little reason for making it an overworld action unless you can do it elsewhere at some point, and in that case I'm curious what that might mean.

The thing I'm most curious about is what Byleth is actually doing with her Crest. The conversations and cutscenes we've seen so far have hidden the HUD, but it's on full display here, so I don't think she's merely showing to someone. In that case it suggests she's using it to interact with her environment in some way, which is rather curious.

@SatsumaFSoysoy Reminder about the text on the image. I knew Hilda was voiced by Kuwahara Yuuki from Famitsu, but even without that I think I would have still heard Tooru from Maid Dragon. I wonder if Maid will return as a class, despite the loss of daggers. Or if she can reclass into a Manakete.

In the printed version of the Famitsu article, page 2. https://nintendoeverything.com/scans-roundup-fire-emblem-three-houses-yo-kai-watch-4-more/

If people want to spin a narrative nothing will dissuade them, especially not something as immaterial as "the truth."

I'd just go with "They fought for supremacy," personally. Considering they use 濃, I'd guess you're right that pure/concentrated/undiluted is what they're going for. Probably not unlike pairing Ayra with Chulainn (I will never get used to these English names) to get major holy blood on her kids in Genealogy.

戦場ごとの使用回数に限りがあるが、アイテムなどは消費しないので出し惜しみなく使うのがよさそうだ。 I believe it says later that there is a limit on the number of times ploys (is that what we're calling them?) can be used per map, so that should hopefully keep it from being too absurd.

Looks like blondie's named Ingrid.

よろしく has several uses in the language, ranging from anything from "please treat me well" to "I look forward to working with you" to "by all means". While it is a staple part of meeting for the first time (frequently following something like はじめまして), it's plenty common in other contexts too, so I personally doubt it's their first meeting.

Personal skills returning is definitely something I can get behind, as long as they aren't stupid (looking at you, Sophie). Especially in a game that pushes "anyone can be anything", I'm all for anything that adds individuality. And Hilda looks lovely, though I'm surprised her twintails fan out at the ends.

The fact that Dorothea is the sole commoner amongst the nobility is reminding me of the trope of the one poor student in the rich school that got in on scholarships or personal connections, characters like Haruhi in Ouran or Tsukushi from Hana Yori Dango. How sad, Dorothea. In any other franchise you would have been the protagonist.

Figures the first female student we get after Edelgard would be the one we arguably already knew the most about. Not that I'm complaining. The connection to Manuela is neat, even if I kind of wish she could have been from a different opera company just for the sake of an even bigger world, like an off-Broadway star looking up to a Broadway one rather than having two Broadway stars. But this way is still fine, and if it turns out that she's the only commoner that got in because the Mittlefrank Opera has connections with Garreg Mach, then that's potentially even more interesting. On that note, the fact that the Golden Deer has more commoners than other houses is a bit less impressive when their competition is "only one."

Aww, beat me to it because I can't figure out how to post tweets. Regardless, glad we're not only getting student bios. E: Also, I'd guess just one 'L' in Manuela.

Good plot and characters is first and foremost. Anything beyond that is window dressing. With that disclaimer, let's dress those windows: No kids. Pairing and S-ranks are fine, and I'd even accept Byleth's kid as post-game or DLC content if they absolutely have to, but otherwise, no kids. If there's no kids, we don't need to worry about pairing wrongly and missing children. So don't force pairings for people that don't make sense. I'll take 5 good supports over 15 of drastically varying quality. Likewise, if S-ranks return, don't jump straight to marriage. There's no pregnancies to legitimize or wedding rings to prove lineage, so a simple confession is plenty. Proper paired endings, not Fates' A+B approach or Robin's insert-spouse-name-here. And make some of them platonic while you're at it, I miss that. Tellius-style base conversations. It's so nice to see how characters are reacting to the events of the plot, even if you never use them. Echoes-style was OK, but was hampered by not being chapter-specific and requiring happening upon the characters by chance between main story missions. World-building that somehow doesn't suffer from the fact that you seemingly have a home base you'll be returning to constantly. I want to experience the cultures and histories of these nations firsthand. And for these nations to have cultures and histories. An interesting villain(s). If the final boss has to be a Big Evil Dragon then fine, whatever, but at least make the guys leading up to it compelling. Don't make the Avatar the center of the universe. Of course, they're already a time-manipulating, mystical sword-wielding, so-skilled-I-don't-need-a-teaching-degree player insert whose father is the greatest knight in history, so it's probably too late. But at least let the other characters shine on their own merits without constantly suggesting they "couldn't have done it without you, Teacher." Differentiation between units of the same class, like how Echoes had a different set of learned spells for each individual Mage/Cleric. It makes the anyone-can-be-anything approach a lot more palatable. Warp/Rescue/etc spells early without making them Too Rare To Use. Silque and Faye zapping people across the map was one of my favorite parts of Echoes. Good map design. Map design was one of my least-favorite parts of Echoes. Don't cross a line with pandering/fan-service. No petting, no hot spring mishaps, no Raider weapons etc. And if you have to put a thong on any of your female models, at least don't make it the armor knight. I could probably keep going, but I just noticed that the thread title is "What do you want the most out of Three Houses?" so...whoops. I'll stop now. My "most" is good plot and characters.

The sections are "Church of Seiros/Academy" and "Knights of Seiros", so it's not about Geralt specifically or his company. Interesting that Lorentz's bio doesn't mention being Claude's right-hand man or anything. He just seems like another student. I wonder if that means A) Claude doesn't have a retainer, B) his retainer is female but they wanted to do another male bio to keep the houses balanced, or C) Lorentz is his retainer, and that just wasn't worth mentioning explicitly.