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It seems like everyone's frustrations with certain characters revolve around IS's incompetence with writing quality. Hayato's support with Corrin is even nearly a direct copy and paste from Ricken/Robin in Awakening and while that was really disappointing I did not allow it to make me dislike Hayato just for that reason. Hayato is okay to me since he's really just a cinammon roll with a chip on his shoulder. To alleviate this issue I've taken it upon myself to create my own headcanons for characters whenever the need to flesh out arises to save myself the trouble of resenting fictional characters. With that said, even with headcannons I cannot be made to appreciate Charlotte in full. I started Conquest thinking she'd be the one to marry Corrin even while knowing what she's into but upon meeting her and getting some support ranks it surprised me how turned off I was by her need to get comfy with anyone with station considered upper class. I'm not at all bothered by the repetitiveness of the affectionate lines spoken in the treehouse. I have an imaginitive mind and Corrin's always doing something more fulfilling with his/her spouses than being told how much he/she tickles their fancy.

Ryoma is an amazing team carrier but trying to let him do too much never ends well for me. So I went ahead and knighted Ryoma, Silas, and Hinata as Corrin's three musketeers. Corrin = D'Artagnan, the young, foolhardy, and brave main character. Ryoma = Athos, who never fully recovered from the deaths of his father and late mother Mikoto. The father figure of the royal siblings. Silas = Aramis, a handsome young man struggling between loyalty to his country, Norh, and his fondness for Corrin. (Wasn't much of a struggle, really.) Hinata = Porthos, a fashionable man, fond of fashionable hairstyles. Not very bright but more than makes up for it in strength of body and character.

I am very pleased that Silas is #1 bae for female Corrin. He really should be #1 bae for male Corrin too but oh well.

Switch in Swordfaire fo Veteran's Intuition. It seems either Hinata's Avoid stat is already capped and can no longer be increased passed 98. With this said, his current speed is 34. Oh, definitely. My Revelations Hinata is married to Azura so she is able to support him as his second with Warding Blow, Darting Blow, Air Superiority, and Axebreaker. I'm not sure if Foreign Princess is working because the -2/+2 is hard for me to notice.

I am rather fond of Setsuna's Yumi...equipped on Setsuna o'course. The strange mix of anxiety from it's naturally low accuracy and satisfaction from the debuff when it hits is quite entertaining.

My swordmaster Hinata has been performing amazingly at the arena with Astra, Aether, Duelist Blow, Death Blow, and Veteran's Intuition equipped. Dodges even at the third battle.

I felt an interesting mix of happiness and guilt for not trusting mother dearest on her last point of guidance.

I imagine Azama in a fedora would look something like this defense lawyer from the Miles Edgeworth Investigation series of games—but with his eyes closed or with star irises.

Character: Silas and Hinata Unit: Silas and Ryoma

Personal Skills: Pacifist: Luck 0.5% chance at the start of battle. This unit refuses to attack and when damage is received the enemy unit who dealt it cannot attack on their next turn. Defeatist: At full HP this unit enjoys +5 damage boost with any weapon equipped. Once HP drops below half this unit deals -5 damage with any weapon equipped.

I see Jakob as broken. I see his unfriendliness and then I remember what happened to him and I just get this real strong need to care for him. It's really hard for me to hate him like how the others can so easily.

Opinion Upgrades: Flora - I did not give her much thought before touching the game but after going through Conquest and Birthright and reading her support with Felicia I decided she was my Corrin's One True Love in Revelations. Felicia - Her, "We've got Trouble" line initially put me off but increasing her support ranks with the other characters garnered much of my admiration. Silas - He plays the bestfriend and honorable knight role very nicely. I just wasn't expecting him to fail pretty badly at the nice guy role. Suddenly seeing him initially being jerky to numerous characters made me like him a lot more than I did strangely. Perhaps he was purposely created to be character that disappointed people upon closer inspection but he did not disappoint me. Xander - For a while I've been on the hate train for Xander considering how he's behaved much of the time but very recently I thought about his personality and his relationship with Garon. Xander always struck me as the kind of person that clung to things that touch his heart and being born a Scorpio it makes sense—just as how Silas, who is also a Scorpio, clung to the friendship he forged with Corrin even when he/she was made to forget him to stop the pain. If I remember correctly Xander was the only one out of the siblings to remember a much more benevolent King Garon and it was that image of a benevolent king that he clung to so dearly it ended up costing him more than he bargained for. What I wanted to see that didn't happen in Revelations was a proper goodbye for the Nohrian royals with Garon—I wanted the siblings to finally see their real father and for Xander to see the Garon he remembered one last time to say goodbye. I didn't like that Garon was written to be long gone and was actually a Slime demon masquerading in his place. But at least with this desire in my head I can put my dislike for him to rest. He exists more on the same level with Takumi to me—on the, "I understand but still don't particularly like all that much" plane. Arthur - I thought he was just going to be the poster boy for justice but he's really also a very good man. I'm disappointed he can't naturally reclass into Butler. Would love for him to serve revenge, ahem, I mean Justice with Felicia's plate. Hinata - I was excited to use this jock upon discovering that his growth's were rather unique considering his class. I kept expecting him to under perform as many others have but he didn't. Found a Sunrise Katana, stuck it on him and just kept making me smile with the dodges. He rocks with Vantage, Life and Death, Astra/Aether, Swordfaire/Duelist's Blow, and Wary Fighter. It certainly helps that he's a generally cheerful and nice guy to the others. Opinion Downgrades: The Awakening Trio - It's not such a down grade that would completely sour my feelings for them—Owain was my son and I'll always love him but after playing their DLC story I gotta say,

I like to assume Corrin was a very curious and nosy child. In my head he was excited to meet the other royal children and tried to sneak along but was quickly found by the previous Saizo. Sumeragi, being the benevolent king and father he was, allowed for him to follow closely behind. It was supposed to a peaceful negotiation after all...

I don't hate Takumi. I understand him but he's not a favorite. Excellent follow up ally. #PraiseTakumi

I actually liked Hinata x Azura a lot. The frequent appearance of bamboo shoots remind me a lot of my favorite pairing in Nichijou (Manabu Takasaki sensei x Izumi Sakurai sensei) Also, a sky blue haired Hisame vaguely reminds me of Kadaj from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Other Favorite Pairings: Arthur x Kagero - Here, Arthur's proclivity for misfortune results in fortune, Percy included. Silas x Oboro - This is one of the supports where my bro Silas isn't being a judgmental butt. Here, vengeful hatred turns into tolerance and then grows into love. This is always a wonderful thing to me.

If you really wanted to you could just choose to see it as a dramatic romance. Often enough in dramas and novels the best couples tend not to get acquainted on the best terms. Dude. Now I can't help but see Silas x Hana as some melodramatic Korean drama. LOL. I still wouldn't couple them though. It seems as though Silas was really just made for Corrin and seemingly incompatible with most everyone else. Edit: Added from double post: I'm finding it difficult to want to marry off Ryouma. In my head it'll always be Ryouma x Scarlet. I demand a patch that'll fulfill this. I like marrying Rinkah to Saizo since they actually have pretty good chemistry together. Also, it makes sense in my head that Grey inherited his love for sweets from Rinkah because she loves them too. And his hair would be Grey-ish.

This makes some sense to me. From what I've gathered from other forms of media and bits of history is that it's actually very common for the upper class to mistreat other upper class people. But realistically they would do it discreetly, behind each other's backs or very, very passive aggressively through backhanded dialogue. In Fates' case though it's out in the open because this is just how the support system works. His otherwise more pleasant supports with the characters you mentioned lead me to conclude that Silas may harbor a rather low opinion of the higher class despite being born into it. This could be because he wasn't aloud to see Corrin anymore and was even about to be executed for taking Corrin out of confinement—the fact that Silas is a Scorpio helps to cement this because it's difficult for Scorpios to forget painful events in which they feel deeply wronged. So it could be understood that his unfair judgement and treatment of the mentioned characters may be him projecting the pain of having been judged, sentenced, and treated harshly by those of equal or higher standing than him. I agree with shrinking the support size for the hope of quality (but I also want length). What I want is for the writers to sit down and think deeply about the characters they're writing supports for and consider all of what makes the characters them before letting them interact with each other. In too many supports I got the feeling the writers weren't very serious and didn't mean for them to be taken seriously (I.E. Soleil x Foleo) but it didn't turn out that way for most of the fans. We took it all seriously because we're serious about Fire Emblem and raged about it. I have no problem with characters acting like jerks to certain others because I can appreciate certain Jerk tropes myself but let me know why in higher ranks—give me insight—give me character—because with the support system as it is allowing for characters to mistreat others with no real basis and then falling in love with them within four instances does not make for an enjoyable read. It just makes them look bad with poor chemistry even if we're able to piece together the "whys" ourselves.

I read it and yeah it's not very good. In this instance it seems like the problem was with the writer focusing too much on Silas and forgetting about Hana's capabilities. We already know how capable Silas is because he became a knight just with the hope of seeing Corrin again—he knew he had to be good. There was no need to downplay another character just for this. All that resulted in this support is a poor showcasing of both characters. I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed with the writers. As bad as some of the supports can be this game really has a lot of characters and many of them have to be benched. I suppose it would be easy to get lost with all the supports that must be written by a deadline just to let us see how the characters got along.

Does the database include Japanese support conversations? I'd like to see the JPSilas x Hana one. Edit: I went saw the English support with Hana and yeah that definitely sounds like it's coming from his noble bearing. He was totally looking down on her.

I may have a strong bias toward Silas but I will not defend him here. He's okay and nice most of the time but when he meets certain people that trigger his judgmental behavior I can understand perfectly why people do not take too kindly to him. I think he can be like that because of the fact that he's of noble blood and bearing—it's in the nature of the noble class to feel entitled to many things, manipulate to their advantage, and judge others they feel need to be judged. This makes him much more human to me and even more easy to appreciate as a character because he's really just like any of us and we can all be jerks at any given time when triggered.

The fact that most of Felicia's supports is basically just her being berated just makes me like her more. Still trying even after all the beating. Had I been in her shoes I would have let slipped laxatives or even better, antidiarrheals, into the boiling water for tea...I mean, because I'm so clumsy and all.

"A lot of Japanese people" feels like a stretch because in another forum someone said something like this too but about Ike's declining popularity coinciding with his new buffed up appearance for Smash Bros.. We found out soon that "alot" was only about 12 dissenting people in a Japanese forum. Anyway, I find that it's usually the people who yearn for eccentricity in characters that tend not to appreciate someone like Silas, Stahl, or Kellam as much as I can and it appears to be true here as well. But why do I like him? Self-proclaimed childhood best friend? check. Seems too normal/boring? check. Sports a similar hairstyle to mine? check. Overall, a good bro? check. I usually bring him as my right hand man to kill off bosses. I partner with him and let him tank all the enemies near the bosses with Seal Str, Def, Spd, Luna, and Renewal and then switch back to Corrin when all that is left is the boss. I do find his support with Elise leaning on disappointing but I'll blame it on the writing and I don't like the idea of them together at all anyway. I thought the best Silas support was with Ryoma because I got to see more insight on how much Corrin means to him and that Silas wasn't always the warm and open person he is now. I was also really touched by the blood vow they made. I'm a bit disappointed that Silas cannot support with more male characters, the other royals most especially.

Concerning Draconic Hex and the Seal skills, the seal effect will take priority over the stat that would have been subtracted by 4 from Draconic Hex. Example scenario: With Draconic Hex, Seal Defense, Seal Speed equipped the stat reduction would look like this: Str: -4 Mag: -4 Skill: -4 Spd: -6 Lck: -4 Def: -6 Res: -4 I just tried it out with Corrin with the results in front of me. He was equipped with Draconic Hex and Seal Strength and the enemy samurai's stats dropped like so: Str: 9-6 = 3 Mag: 0 Skill: 11-4 = 7 Spd: 16-4 = 12 Lck: 7-4 = 3 Def: 6-4 = 2 Res: 7-4 = 3

IS easily could have ripped Mirabelle's body model off and put Forest's head on it.

I want Hayato to say his critical line, "Goodbye." to Garon but I bench him fairly quickly so he's usually too far behind to bring along late game.