The Geek
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Yeah, that's the only skill that Lucina can pass down.
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Not to talk down on people that have disabilities, but why the hell do people overanalyze characters to that point?
Is it to relate closer to your favorite characters? Because honestly that shitstorm of a thread with Cordelia before rings a bell.
I dunno. Possibly. You could probably diagnose every character in all of literature with some kind of mental condition.
Speaking of headcanons about OCs with psychological disorders, what about Libra? IIRC, he displays some symptoms of other kinds of autism, like his fear of being touched and whatnot.
'Research'? What is this 'research' of which you speakThat's his trauma from being abused as a child.
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Laurent, no, he seems much more normally-functional if just a bit analytical and high-strung. Miriel though, as brilliant as the game claims she is, seems to question and feel the need to experiment on the most arbitrary of things sometimes.
Laurent could possibly be someone who either has a less severe version of Asperger's or received some kind of help in dealing with it.
Miriel isn't even human with how she acts.
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I can only really see it in the bangs. Honestly, if the artist hadn't outright said it was Olivia, I would never have guessed.
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15 months logged, near 700 hours of playing... I think I need an intervention.
I sometimes break it up with a little Kid Icarus Uprising or Link Between Worlds.
Hey, it was the game I got my 3DS for, might as well get my damn money's worth.
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Compulsiveness is not a part of Asperger's Syndrome. That's its own condition, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
I never got the vibe that Miriel or Laurent had any trouble communicating or getting along with the others.
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Seeing as Awakening was so popular, not to mention the highest grossing of the series, I would be very surprised if the next game isn't similar in at least some aspects.
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The Fate/Stay Night visual novel is one of the greats. Avoid the 2006 anime though, just wait for the new one to come out in Fall.
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I think so too, but greek tragedy as a genre does not care what mythology a hero comes from(note that nowhere in poetics is this a condition). A writer can easaly write a story so that the general framework of plot is based on greek tragedy, while the actual events are based on any tragic story. Note for example that sigurd had no flaw that caused his demise in the story above. (although actual ancient greeks probably would have counted being brainwashed. They weren't very picky.) Also, does the Veolsung have the reversal, the recognition, and suffering? The way that these occur at the end of chapter 5 scene is a little to precise to be coincidence, imo.
Uh. Let me think.
After killing Sigurd, Brynhildr goes absolutely nuts and kills herself by throwing herself on his funeral pyre. Does that count?
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I know that this one was kinda crushed by Awakening, but I don't care. The 12 holy weapons of Jugdral (Plus Loptyr) are the 13 SS Rank weapons from Radiant Dawn.
Vague Katti ---> Balmung
Alondite---> Mystletainn
Ragnell--->Tyrfing
Wishblade---> Gae Bolg
Baselard stuck on the end of a stick ---> Gungnir
Urvan ---> Helswath
Double Bow ---> Ichival
Rexflame ---> Valflame
Rexbolt ---> Mjolnir
Rexcalibur ---> Forseti
Rexaura ---> Book of Naga
Balberith ---> Book of Loptyr
Ashera Staff ---> Valkyrie Staff
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What i like about sigurd is that he is much closer to a classical Greek tragic hero then most "tragic characters" in modern literature. The classical Greeks felt that the ideal tragic hero was a good man with a flaw which brought about his downfall. Sigurd fits this bill to a tee, with "too naive" being the flaw in question. An ideal tragedy also contains a reversal. Everything is going swimmingly until it starts going horribly. THis is accompanied with a recognition. The hero realizes this, and the audience watches his mental facade crumble to dust before there eyes. This is then followed by the scene of suffering, in which some kind of bodily harm comes to the hero. To quote chapter 11 of aristotle's "poetics", the classic word on the subject
This sounds a lot like what happens at the end of chapter 5.
Eh, I'd argue again that he's more based upon Norse or Celtic tragic heroes since those two mythologies are where the Jugdral saga take the majority of their inspiration.
In fact, the dynamic between Sigurd, Deirdre, and Arvis parallels the story of the characters of Sigurd, Brynhildr, and Gudrun in the Norse "Voelsung Saga"
In the Voelsung Saga, Sigurd comes across the warrior maiden Brynhildr placed into an enchanted sleep. He frees her and they fall in love, but they cannot marry until Sigurd claims his throne as the heir of the house of Voelsung. On his journey, he comes across a powerful noble family led by the matriarch Grimhildr who is also a powerful witch. She hypnotizes Sigurd so that he forgets about Brynhildr and instead falls in love with her daughter Gudrun. Brynhildr is later wed to Gudrun's brother Gunnar, but she goes crazy when she finds out that Sigurd married Gudrun and kills him.
This parallels the story of Sigurd, Deirdre, and Arvis because Sigurd finds Deirdre, they fall in love, then Deirdre is hypnotized to forget Sigurd and fall in love with Arvis, and Sigurd later goes on a rampage when he finds out that Arvis married Deirdre, and is killed.
Just a thought.
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Oh yeah, I've also come up with unique classes for specific characters in the fic I mentioned earlier.
Thief/archer princess: A princess that uses knives/daggers and bows as well as the general skills of thieves.
Wyvern/dark mage prince: A prince that rides a wyvern and uses axes, lances, and dark magic.
Pegasus mage princess: A princess that rides a Pegasus and uses lances, swords, and anima magic.
Weapon triangle Pegasus queen: A queen that rides a Pegasus, but can use the whole weapon triangle.
I've also reformatted Archsages to be able to use ALL forms of magic and staves. So they can go fire, wind, thunder, light, and dark magic plus staves.
Those all sound ridiculously overpowered. I'd think those would probably be more like classes reserved for specific characters who come in late game.
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I think the story would have been much better if Gangrel and Walhart were fought in a different order. For instance:
Game goes as it normally does up until Chapter 7.
Valmese show up, and Chrom and Co. are called upon to uphold their alliance with Regna Ferox.
The three leaders: Gangrel, Emmeryn, and Flavia (with Basilio tagging along) have a council and decide to raise a joint army with Chrom, Basilio, and Mustafa as leaders. The player gets Cordelia, Tharja, Henry, Olivia, and Cherche at this point.
Joint army goes through Valm Arc, with more interaction between some of the different army leaders for some maybe interesting dialogue.
Goes back to Ylisse where it turns out that Gangrel captured Emmeryn. Big battle breaks out with the Ylissians and Feroxi against the Plegians with Validar and his goons doing things in the background.
Finally goes to boss rush finale of Gangrel, Aversa, Validar, and finally Grima.
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One of the worst FE lords in one of the worst FE games
Careful man, you might cut yourself on that edge.
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I want a Fire Emblem that features an alien invasion.
And then it turns out that dragons are aliens.
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TUMBLR. KISAMAAAAAA...!
アイク・・・
Source: http://kipchannel.tumblr.com/post/85075569877/i-vow-to-remain-by-your-side-as-long-as-i-draw
10/10 would S-rank
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I really do have a hard time deciding. Elice is basically like my sister. Lissa is the sister I wish I had. Ethlyn, Julia, Altena, and Eirika are all beasts gameplay wise. Mist and Sanaki are kinda meh.
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Oh my god. The Micaiah one is perfect. I've been trying to think of a decent "light mage girls become dark mages in bikinis" joke for ages.
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I agree with Loki. The story is poor, but the characters and their interactions are the highlight. That's why they got away with making three DLC chapters that are literally nothing but character interaction. My work to not really complete but at least get all the unique conversations in the support log attests to that.
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Make Griffons their own separate class tree. With swords.
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Too much good. Can't decide.
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Surprised that Arvis had Manfloy order him around when Arvis was alot more powerful than him.
Manfloy had major dirt that he could give out to the people about Arvis, namely his Loptyr blood. It's mentioned during Gen 1 that there are major witch hunts for anyone who may have anything to do with the Lopt Sect, and that if people found out that Arvis had actual Lopt (un)holy blood he could well be subject to a fate worse than death.
Also, on the actual subject of the thread, I like Sigurd well enough. His story arc is a big send up to the tragedies of Norse heroes (mostly his namesake, Sigurd Voelsung) since he's a decent guy that suffers through no fault of his own. Also, he kicks major ass as a unit.
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Dragon Gurlz 4 lyfe.
Foodfight's "Mr. Clipboard"...with alternate music.
in Far from the Forest...
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Eh, I preferred JonTron's personally.