EnzanIjuuin

I never said anything about Micaiah being perfect and all. I didn't pronounce her a Mary Sue either. Nor did I mention Ike. All I said is that she has Sue-ish traits, and for that matter, so does Ike, and Soren, and twenty thousand other characters out there. What makes a character interesting to you may not be interesting to others. Getting characters recruited away from her doesn't actually mean anything in this particular context, it just means gameplay is a little more unique this time round, but that has nothing to do with Micaiah's personality. ----- So I've looked through all the posts, but thus far nobody has said anything really special about Micaiah. My opinion of her *has* changed quite a bit, though, thanks to a few of the stronger points here, as well as going to look through the original Japanese script Good grief, they change so much in translations. In any case, she's no longer a 'boring' character, but at the same time, she's not really very 'special', either.

...This is getting out of hand. I really don't wish to see others at each others throats because you can't agree to disagree about liking different characters. And a lot of off-topic stuff are coming up too... Right now, the biggest point of the DB VS Greil Mercenaries I'd like to point out is that DB just doesn't get enough love from the creators. They seem only mildly interesting because the creators just never gave them enough screen time to show off their personalities. Unlike the Greil Mercenaries, who already had a whole game to them, the DB only get a couple of scenes, and apart from Micaiah and Sothe, none of them even appear much after the first part. A lot of the fans who complain about DB and prefer the GMs probably do so because they are already attached to the previous characters, who had a whole game to gain the love of them, and also because there just wasn't enough story to make the DBs very appealing. Of course, the DB fans who DID get interested by those few scenes would disagree, but everyone's different that way. With Micaiah, I'd say it's probably the same thing. Having read through the Japanese script by now, I think she could have been a lot more interesting if they'd given her space to flesh out. She is not a BAD character, she just wasn't given enough opportunity to show that she isn't a BORING character. There are times when she was pretty amusing, like during certain base conversations, but well... Sometimes I feel like she isn't quite a believable character. Mary Sues have become so wide in variety that one simply cannot define a Mary Sue so easily. I agree to a certain extent that Micaiah has Sue-ish traits, but then again, so does nearly every other character in the story. The biggest problem with Mary Sues is not the colour of their hair or the superpowers they own; rather, it's the fact that they are simply too good/too bad/too impossible to be true. And I think that with Micaiah, she's probably fluttering around and back and forth across that line.

whase: Yes, but what I meant was that I don't have a bone to pick with Micaiah regarding the blood pact. Also, those points I scribbled out were just random on-the-spur thoughts. I didn't put down each and every single point of Micaiah's life for someone to give a rebuttal. I hadn't meant for this to be a heated debate to tell me that My-Opinion-of-Micaiah-is-Totally-And-Entirely-Wrong, but it looks like that's what it's slowly resembling. XDDDD

Hm, it appears that I quite a few of my words have their meaning misunderstood. But I'm not going to get all defensive. Though I think a defensive reaction (on Micaiah's part) is what I seem to have raised with some of my words, but I meant no malicious intent with those. Anyway! Some of you have raised some valid points. The situation in which Micaiah had been put in *is* a lot crazier than what most other protagonists were forced into, and no matter how easily the rest of us criticise them for their actions, the difficult part is in actually making a decision in that situation, and going through with it. I would not say that Micaiah made many *wrong* decisions, because really, what's right to one person may be wrong to another. I disapprove of her actions, mainly because I would have picked a different road, but that's why I'm not Micaiah. Man, sidetracked. Mr. Know-it-all-something: Points taken. Though I seem to have misphrased some of my sentences and caused you to react in kind. But never mind. Micaiah's blind faith can be taken as pure loyalty of the highest degree, which is a pretty strong point. Yet that blind faith is what many may call foolishness (as I sort of did). Though one may argue that faith and trust are supposed to be unconditional and impulsive, anyway. pitbuller: Micaiah was calling them sub-humans. I distinctively remember that. And technically, it's not her fault; like Jill, she was raised to believe that sub-humans are filth. I sort of did mention the blood pact thing, but it's in the journal and not here because that's Pelleas' problem, not Micaiah. Do take note that I do not hate Pelleas OR Micaiah. I don't actively dislike them, either. I just don't like that as much as I do the other characters, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to change that by giving me different viewpoints. Thus far, it's working... a little bit.

I just completed Radiant Dawn. I have to admit, I was very disappointed at the sight of Micaiah when I first started the game. As I played through it, I found very little that would endear her to me, and even now that I've finished, I can't seem to like her all too much. And since I normally like every character (to various degrees, with various exceptions), it's a bit of a shock to me. So I'm hoping that someone out there has caught something about Micaiah that I actually missed. Something that makes her a great character, personality wise. Or gameplay wise....I mean, the fact that my Micaiah is totally RNG-screwed and that she kept on dying doesn't help. XD;; *rant removed because my intentions behind it seemed misphrased*

Freohr: Yeah, I suppose. And llamas may one day fly with paper cups. At the moment, FFTF looks like... a dumpster where one can find treasure, junk, or unexplainable works of...art and sense. Pretty interesting.

Thanks for the welcomes. acey555: It's Yuri Lowell, from the game (movie) Tales of Vesperia. And Repede. I'd love to finish FE6, I uh... just have to dig it up. It's around here... somewhere. *glances vaguely about* ...Looks like things around here are very... eventful. <s>Perhaps disturbingly so...?</s>

Uh. I never do know what to say in self-introductory threads... I'm EnzanIjuuin, also known as Daidairo, and pretty much a lurker 70% of the time. The rest of the 30%, I'm either saying something totally random or something kind of insightful. Kind of. Fire Emblem has always been one of my favourite series, ever since I played it for the first time (PoR). Since then, I've played quite a couple of them (though I haven't completed every one due to various reasons) and enjoyed them just as much. I don't claim to be a brilliant tactician, since I always seem to take a lot of time playing (though that could partly be because I sometimes abuse save options thanks to my horrible RNG luck. What are the chances that three different charas would level up with NO STAT BOOST in the same map?!), but I'm okay enough that I always play the normal mode (and not the easy one). And... I suppose that's it. FE history: Path of Radiance (complete) Monshou no Nazo (incomplete) Fuuin no Tsurugi (incomplete) Rekka no Ken (incomplete) Sacred Stones (complete... I think) Shadow Dragon (incomplete) Radiant Dawn (currently playing) So... nice to be here!