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Darn it. Finally having a game where the whole plot changes based on a decision made early on, and they split it into 2 games? If the reason it is being delayed in the US is to condense it to 1 cartridge then that is worth the delay.

As expected, the moment they switch back to the female version Robin starts showing more personality again.

I knew I couldn't be the only person who said 'why didn't they just go to Basilio instead of fighting in the ring?'

I prefer femu, but she seems really overrepresented in these comics. Not that I'm complaining. It's just surprising.

That has to become a meme.

"If I'm you, I'll never lose myself." Kellam plotting some body snatching to get noticed.

I was thinking the same thing (well, not the hell part).

These are adorable.

The worst I've seen was the Kataang vs Zutura fights in the Avatar fandom. I'll never understand that one.

The game takes place in a literal multiverse. Everyone is canon. There might even be a timeline where Cordelia marries Chrom. Somewhere...in that dark corner over there...Ok maybe not.

Is this a rant about casual players just doing what the game tells them to? Once someone is serious enough about the game to be on this site they know that it is about player choices and will have had at least one playthrough where Sumia did not marry Chrom. It was a mistake for IS to push Sumia over the other choices, but in terms of the fandom I think the female avatar rivals Sumia and is also pushed by the game over most of the other choices if you play as her.

The brand doesn't have to be easy to see for Lucina to want to cover it up. All that's needed is for one person to notice and there comes a world of problems. Lucina will give more reasons for the mask in a later chapter and a dlc chapter. Did you start looking at the Lucina/Morgan supports yet? Or any of the supports between the parents and the kids?

"Time to bring the hype!" It's the most excited I've ever been for a handheld game.

FEA is not like Mass Effect in that you can't really get a 'bad' ending. If you want Chrom to marry your avatar keep doing what your doing. You won't even need to get an S level support conversation. If you want someone else to marry Chrom or your avatar either get your avatar to an S rank with that person quickly or get the person you want to marry Chrom to a higher support rank than the Avatar quickly. If you have a female avatar and she doesn't marry Chrom the game will later imply that you should have gotten them married, though it's in a humorous way so it really doesn't matter. Just do what you want. The only thing I'd say to do is take every opportunity to hear the characters talk, whether in conversations or in the barracks.

The only character That annoyed me from start to finish was Yarne for how whiny and cowardly he was. I liked Vaike at first, but he needed to grow past his 'Vaikeness' to not be annoying later on. It got old. I found Sumia harder to keep alive than Donnel for some reason, which made me not use her even on casual mode. Donnel is also a real pain to get to be useful, but I don't have a problem with their characters. I just don't like using them in battle. For the most part I like the personalities of the characters and find the villains to be inoffensive to pretty good. I find the supports to help a lot in fleshing out the characters when they aren't always in such a serious situation.

Headcanon: The avatar spent his/her whole childhood training because the mother was so worried about Validar finding them. That is why the Avatar is so good at swordplay, magic, and tactics at the start when most characters start out only specialising in 1. Headcanon: The avatar was looking for Chrom and co. before having amnesia and in the timeline where he/she never had amnesia. I say this because the avatar joins the sheperds both with and without his/her memory and if you play as the female avatar and marry Chrom they get married no matter whether she has her memories or not. Headcanon: Morgan is from the same timeline as the other children as long as he has a sibling. From what I've seen of the supports his/her siblings seem to have expected him/her to have come with them into the past, or if they didn't expect it they show no surprise at it presense. The exception is when he's the child of another one of the children like Lucina. Then he practically has to be from another timeline. He also won't have siblings that way.

Read it as 'Weird AL' at first.

I did not think people would get so worked up over something that could only ever come to pass in a fanfic. It's not like I work for Nintendo and my version would become anything official or preclude other Make Robin male and forget the parts where Sumia and Cordelia are jealous if you want. I have Robin be female and Chrom's wife because to me everything revolves around the 'Id: Sorrow' scene and to me that scene is at its best when they are mother and daughter. If you disagree then fine. In terms of personality I don't have a preference for who marries Chrom. Having Sumia and Cordelia be jealous is just one of several ways of introducing more intra-group conflict, thought that can be solved with just having more people than Fredrick distrust him/her. The comment that Robin is a dick confuses me the most. Is it the part where she sends the Pegasus Knights to fight a different battle? Because there are plenty of reasons why that would be a good idea, like any time they fight indoors where a flying horse wouldn't do any good. Other than that there is no point where she is a 'dick' to anyone. Most of the changes to the first part are mostly about making Robin less of a Mary/Gary Stu. Starting out less liked, less skilled, and less confident and staying that way until much later. The Valm campaign has the biggest changes because I felt it was the weakest part. The part I wanted the most comments on was having Excellus kidnap Robin so he/she is not there for the final fight with Walhart. Clearly I should have just said 'my changes to the story' instead of being more ambitious in thinking of the format. That way I would only have listed things that don't happen in the game no matter how you play. I also mistook this as a place where people like the story, since I figured people who thought it sucked wouldn't be on the forums specifically about the game.

After playing the game I thought that I'd love to see the story put into a novel or tv series/anime format, either in 3 novels or 3 seasons. I thought this mught be a good place to get opinions on my ideas for how such a book or tv series would play out. Book/Season 1The beginning is largely the same. The fight with Validar and then Robin waking up to Chrom and Lissa. Robin is female. During the fight with the brigands Robin shows how she 'sees' things on the battlefield by noticing an archer attempting to kill Chrom from the second floor window of a nearby house, pushing him out of the way, and firing a lightning bolt at the archer. When questioned about possibly injuring innocents with her magic she reveals that she saw the family that lived there fleeing earlier in the fight, so she knew the brigand was the only one in the house at the time. Of the Sheperds, Chrom and Lissa are the only ones to really trust Robin to start out with; the rest share Fredrick's suspicions. Robin is not made the group tactician, but is a 'tactician in training.' She is also not confident in her ablities yet. Book 1 or season 1 is a coming of age story for Robin as well as Chrom. Still, Chrom turns to her for advice a lot, causing some resentment from Sumia and Cordelia. The conevrsations between Robin and Chrom are a mix of the male and female supports. They do not both see each other naked in the bathhouse. Sumia is more of a pacifist than in the game, but it only comes up in private. The fight to save Nowi occurs earlier, and Robin realizes that she must have been with the Grimleal because her hand has their mark. This causes another personal crisis for her and rekindles some of the mistrust between her and the sheperds. It falls to Chrom to keep the peace in his army and keep Robin from quitting, which is when they start to get romantically involved. The news of Emmeryn's impending excecution is when Robin steps up and becomes more confident and the group's full fledged tactician. Though the plan fails because of the sudden appearence of the Risen, it earns Robin the respect of most of the sheperds. Plus Tharja replaces Robin as the resident untrustworthy scary person of the group. The mysterious figure that saved Validar is shown to have had something to do with the Risen appearing. The end of the war with Plegia is largely the same. Rickon and Maribelle become an item after he saves her. Not sure about who else hooks up. 2 sheperds die. Book/Season 2 Chrom and Robin are married and have little Lucina, and the Sheperds have learned to like her, though Sumia and Cordelia are still somewhat resentful of her marrying Chrom. That resentment comes to a head during the war with with Valm, when Robin seperates the armies and puts the Pegasus Knights in a battlefield other than the one Chrom fights in. The revelation that she is Validar's daughter and the sight of her doppleganger bring back Robin's old self doubts about having been part of the grimleal. She spends the book/season worried about what that means for the future Lucina predicts. Lucina is the one that finds Morgan, since she is the only one that knows him already, though his near-complete amnesia about everything other than Robin remains. He stays with the group but does not do much, if any fighting this book/season. Lucina has to be shown to love her mother and brother, but also that she worships her father. The other children show up to help in Valm, having not lost their memories and knowing their history. Robin is shown going after Basilio to 'give him advice' after Lucina's warning about him dying. The biggest change is the prominence given to Cervantes and especially to Excellus. After the defeat of Yin'fey Excellus uses his teleporting ability to sneak into the camp and kidnaps Robin. He holds her hostage in the castle of one of the dynasts as a trap for Chrom and because he thinks that without their tactician the sheperds aren't smart enough to outwit him again. But Chrom, recognizing his mistake with Emmeryn and knowing Robin would never want him to walk into a trap for her sake, decides to attack Walhart directly instead. Robin is freed after the dynasts switch sides again and does not play a part in the final battle. 4/5 sheperds die. Book/Season 3 Begins more slowly, with the cast spending more time (weeks/months) in Ylisstol while Fredrick looks for the final jewel. There is a strong sense of forboding and that it is 'the calm before the storm.' Lucina and Robin talk about Lucina's plans for after they stop Grima to set up for the big 'Id: Sorrow' scene. This is the least changed book/season of the 3. Most of the changes are references to past changes, such as Robin bringing up Chrom's decision not to mount a rescue mission for her in book/season 2 when asking him to kill her if Vaildar should gain control of her. Grima is given scenes where he destroys vasts lands and mountains either by landing on them with his huge bulk or by breathing fire on them. This is to show just how much of a threat he is. I'm thinking that his first act after awakening is to find a 'lost' colony of manaketes and destroy them in battle with their dragon forms. It is revealed that even after being fully awakened Grima still wants to merge with Robin to have even more power, enough to become much stronger than Naga and end her instead of being merely equal. Robin sacrifices herself to end Grima for good and disappears. The others mourn. 4-6 sheperds die. So, um, what do you guy think of these ideas.