Sorry Metal Rabbit/Arc. I thought I replied to your post, but I remember I posted it when we couldn't post which basically means I didn't post at all. >_>
Anyways, I'm using Reyson instead because no one likes Rafiel. Yes, Rafiel matches a Bard more, and yes his join time does match more. But you're forgetting one major aspect: no one likes Rafiel. I am going with FE10 join times with the exception of Herons, Zihark, and Jill. Zihark and Jill won't join until Ike's mode (I didn't get that far yet though).
As for game news, I paused working on it for a while. I won't be able to work on it in the summer because I have to return my laptop to my school. I'll submit what I've done so far sometime in the week. I tried to start editing text, but it was too hard and time-consuming (I stopped midway through chapter 1 >_>). So I decided to hold off on it and "hone my skills" while making another hack for FE8. Hopefully I can learn enough stuff there that can help me in FE7. I'll post up what little I've done on the FE8 hack too so that I can show off my new "skillz"... It's basically a joke hack including all of the people in my history class with my teacher being the lord.