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Excluding kids here, because I don't really bother with them. Best: Corrin/Azura is very cute and very well-written on all three routes. Laslow/Peri has amazing character development and backstory, and is just stupidly adorable. Xander/Charlotte: Not as good as the JPN version, but still very good. Kaden/Hana: Two complete opposites play off each other in a way that feels very natural and charming. Takumi/Oboro: Chemistry and development at its finest. Worst: Hinoka/Saizo or Kaze: They both have the same awful premise--delivering letters and then getting married without ever really talking to each other. Silas/Azura: Literally the epitome of a "talk three times then marry" support. Just awful. Ryoma/Camilla: They have nothing to talk about, and that's what their supports are about. It's as boring as it sounds. Kaden/Orochi: She gives him catnip for three supports and marries him in the fourth -_- Jakob/Felicia: Lay off that poor woman already, geez. He's not as bad as he in JPN, but still way too rude and mean.

Ike: http://fabledtactician.tumblr.com/post/140178395476/deusace-i Azura: http://sirenunderthemountain.tumblr.com/post/139798009383 Leo and Elise: http://karioceananime.tumblr.com/post/140149562749/elise-leo-dancing-by-%E7%B1%B3%E7%B1%B3 Beruka: http://zzsleeps.tumblr.com/post/140165938469/cutie-assassin Kana and Shigure as siblings: http://pk-buttcheeks.tumblr.com/post/139856841030/i-got-my-kids-finally-wanted-to-practice-drawing Velouria: http://linnpuzzle.tumblr.com/post/140150624403/commission-for-elphus M!Corrin/Azura: https://twitter.com/yousuke16/status/653223681515126789 Matthew: http://strigine-songbird.tumblr.com/post/140133665826/ive-been-playing-fire-emblem-fates-and-i-felt

Wow, that one is really good. Looks like it legitimately came from that game.

I hate that I can't skip it. No, you stupid dragon, I don't want to watch you meticulously chew that slab of meat, I want to toss it at you and go on my way.

Ah, my apologies; I must have misread that line.

Only one--a girl, Selkie. She's a Kitsune like Kaden. The only exceptions are if you marry Kaden to Femui, in which case you get male Kana as well, or Azura, in which case you get Shigure as well.

Building off point 5:

Zero/Azura is platonic, too. They both basically agree they're way too prickly to ever have a romance, and settle for friends with benefits.

Well, consider how it happens. Hoshido wins, yes, but that's because Corrin, Ryoma and Takumi take a crack squad of soldiers and slip through Nohrian defenses to assassinate Garon. When they receive war reports from Yukimura, they hear about how the Hoshidan forces are being constantly pushed back. And on Revelation, despite neither side having Corrin, Hoshido is still the losing side--Ryoma and Takumi still go missing in battle, Yukimura still talks about Nohrian forces marching on the capital, etc. Hoshido just doesn't have the strength in numbers to repel Nohr, that's why Mikoto needed to put up the barrier in the first place. So really, no, I don't think Hoshido could have beaten Nohr without Corrin.

M!Corrin: http://solidchar.tumblr.com/image/131672732569 Rinkah: http://fireandemblems.tumblr.com/post/139742042470 Human Lilith: http://jokerthebutler.tumblr.com/post/139105633628/lily-white-purity-modesty-death-its Ike: http://darahan.deviantart.com/art/Ike-592606797 M!Corrin, Elise and Camilla: http://fates-count.tumblr.com/post/137866433907/27-days-left-by-dandraco M!Robin: http://camikawaii.deviantart.com/art/FE-A-Prepare-yourself-533108117 Azura: https://twitter.com/Shirotuta/status/645601537192947712 M!Corrin/Azura: https://twitter.com/nt_kuym/status/682682669197438976 Chrom, Tiki, Tharja, Yarne, Lon'qu, and Cordelia: http://akreon.deviantart.com/art/Fire-Emblem-Awakening-534116804 Various comics, centered on the Fates royals: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=55472194

It's always better to go for stacked mods--in this case, SPD--over balanced ones.

I think the kids are non-canon in a similar vein to the bonus characters in the GBA games--nice extra units in your army, a glimpse at what could have been, but dead/not yet born canonically. I think the kids will be born someday, and they'll be the ones we see during the game, but they aren't born in the game. It's unlikely all the women in the army would fall pregnant at the same time (if only because the parents should be more responsible, especially Femui and Azura, who do it twice), the explanation for the age-up is dumb (why couldn't they just stay in MyCastle, again?), and they are never acknowledged by the plot at all (unlike Lucina and the others).

Scarlet's death does serve a purpose--it helps Corrin figure out who the traitor in their midst is. So there's that at least. Izana's, on the other hand, was utterly pointless.

Oh, nice reasoning. I forgot about Hinoka being 7 when she started training or Azura travelling when she was younger.

Conquest Chapter 15. I was paying more attention to the boss's range and accidentally put Camilla in range of the archers. They one-shot her, of course.

When you beat the chapter, we see Nohr!Corrin and Azura by Takumi, who's lamenting that he can't beat them. That implies they just defeated him and the battle has just ended. In that case, then Hans went off and started rampaging through Cheve near the end of the fight or while Nohr!Corrin was dealing with Takumi. So Nohr!Corrin didn't have time to establish his authority or a prison camp or anything like that. Nohr!Corrin's got his faults, but what happened at Cheve wasn't on him.

I suppose that depends on how invested you were in certain things. Personally, I think it's fairly solid. There are things I wish they hadn't removed or had added in, of course, but for the most part I like most of their work.

I would gladly have traded Glasses Guy for Scarlet. I'll weep for that Shiro with you, along with my non-existent blue-haired Dwyer with ice powers.

That is so disappointing. I loved their original S-support, though I admit I like their localized A-support a lot more. Camilla was pretty matter-of-fact about her past in the JPN version, but in the localization she's still hurt by it, enough to get angry and start yelling. Also, I got through Conquest Chapter 15 and I'm mixed. On the one hand, they kept that awful "maybe I should have picked Hoshido" line. On the other, they had Corrin immediately dismiss it afterwards with "No, I could never have betrayed my Nohrian siblings like that, I love them too much"--the JPN version just had him sort of agreeing with himself. Not what I wanted, but I'll take it.

My guesses: Xander: 28 Ryoma: 27 Camilla: 25 Hinoka: 23 Azura: 20 Corrin: 20 Leo: 19 Takumi: 19 Sakura: 18 Elise: 16 Reasoning: - Xander looks older than Ryoma to me, but his birthday is in a month after his, so there's about a year between them. - Elise is "technically an adult", which in the medieval ages would probably be 14, but 16 is the lowest I'm comfortable with. We also know that she's the youngest, since she hadn't been born when Corrin was kidnapped, but Sakura and Takumi were. - Azura and Corrin were likely born within a year of each other, given the fast-paced timeline. A minor detail is that she was born before him, as My original ages had everyone two years younger, but when Elise was pronounced an "adult", I had to bump them all up.

Their other two supports (3 if you go for S) are exactly the same as in Japan.

This. It's upsetting what they've removed, especially this support, but it doesn't make the rest of the good changes they've made suddenly awful all of a sudden. And sometime I feel like the rest of the changes are people being overly sensitive. PoR and RD didn't have Dual Audio, but nobody claims that makes them terrible; we just got spoiled after Awakening released with it.

I really hope someone at Treehouse screwed up and forgot to replace placeholder text with the actual conversation. Sure, it suggest ineptitude, but it's better than believing they would willing do this.

M!Corrin/Azura: http://fates-count.tumblr.com/post/138483302149/17-days-left-by-rierru-twitter-deviantart Laslow x Peri family: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=53853722 Azama x Effie: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=51584386 M!Corrin/Azura: https://twitter.com/wataame_ru/status/685493010910478339 Leo: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Leon-592078028 Eliwood/Ninian: http://eeveetachi.deviantart.com/art/That-special-dance-591436633 Sothe: http://fireemblem-club.deviantart.com/art/Sothe-591998665 Male Corrin: https://twitter.com/_saiba_/status/642743840361680897