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IMHO it's at least partially Freyr's fault for enabling her. The problem with being a royal is that nobody can tell you what to do and it's easy to become spoiled and develop a god-complex. Being an actual god is probably even worse. Let's see how the gods we met so far fare in that department. Freyr is surprisingly alright. Embla is probably a dick considering how they cursed their own descendants. Muspell is also a dick. Nifl may have been alright once upon a time considering she had a human lover and she didn't consider herself superior to her, but nowadays she is dangerously closer to the "do as I say stupid mortal, I am your god" type. Hel was pretty terrible. Loki is unconcerned with morality and consequences, mostly caring about keeping things interesting. Thorr respects humans' strenght, but has morals just as messsed up as Loki. Chances are Askr is also selfish and prideful.
Yikes, the gods have problems. Freyja was terrible, possessive, overreacted, and made a series of increasingly dumber decisions. But the fact she at least seemed to love the people closest to her puts her a bit closer to Nifl, compared to the 100% evil gods. No, Hel didn't love Eir even a little, Eir is delisional if she believes Hel had even a shred of good in her heart.
In my opinion a good reality check like realizing how flawed she is and having to face loss and consequences could convince her to change her ways and reconsider her beliefs.
Granted Freyr's death should have been enough of a reality check, but let's be optimistic and say that dying and being resurrected will be that reality check.
I'm not even convinced she will be redeemed, I just find it probable. More probable than Loki's redemption. I actually believe she will become the final boss after playing Alfador like a fiddle.
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9 minutes ago, Mercakete said:
Regarding Freyja's bluff, it makes sense since she's always been one to attack perception and the mind than the body. Likewise, the rules of the dream-verse was "believe it and it'll happen" so the best way to get her victims to lose is to make them believe they can't win. So, bluffing fits snugly there. Not saying I personally liked her or anything (she was definitely a spoiled princess type and Freyr didn't help by enabling that); it's just that the facts are the facts, you know?
As for Peony, I do think that she'll get another spotlight and probably take over as the Dream Queen if only because her design is the only one to incorporate the symbol of the light fairies. That said, she also got a double portion of dream nectar (having taken Sharena's) and she has a nightmare counterpart (just like Freyr did.) Plus, she's kind of the book's darling. Likewise, I think Triandra will wind up taking over the nightmares, even if she's going to be all "only until Lady Freyja wakes up." So, no worries there since you wanted more on her.
Now, I think the main issue we're having in order to figure out who the main villain is is our definition of "main villain." Also, "antagonist." You can be an antagonist without being a villain. Antagonists are just foils to main characters (and can even be forces of nature (such as the weather) or a character's own shortcomings (such as holding one's self back via doubts or whatever.) Villains, however, are characters and directly oppose hero-type characters, while also being characterized by evil. When I say "main villain" though, I'm talking about the overarching foe and the source of all the bad that the protagonists have to face. So, if your mind was hijacked, you're out of the running for being the main villain, according to the use of the term I'm using. Because Eitri was behind it all, and because she caused everything bad that happened to happen, she's the main villain according to how I'm using this term. The big bad -- the source of all this bad stuff. She may not have appeared too much, and even appeared friendly (to those who trusted her) but the whole time she had malicious intent and manipulated events to her favor, even discarding those she was finished with using (such as Otr and Fafnir.) To me, it's clear who the big bad of each book is: Book 1 was Veronica, Book 2 was Surtr, Book 3 was Hel, Book 4 was Freyja and Book 5 was Eitri. It's just that Eitri being the big bad was a secret until recently (at least as far as overtly stating it goes. I suspected her for a long time, personally.)
If anything good can be said about Freyja is that she isn't pure evil. Just like Otr I could buy her redeeming herself if she comes back to life. Not su much for Hel, Surtr and Eitri who are way more cruel and amoral. And of course Veronica and Bruno are already redeemed we just need to lift the curse.
I hope you are right about Peony.
I guess it depends on the distinction between main antagonitlst in the game (like Black Knight), main villain behind the evil events happening (Lehran) and final boss (Ashera). Before book 6 we had all the roles in a single character.
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3 minutes ago, Mercakete said:
Another thing that happens in book 4 is that Peony is introduced, who is the first character not from book 1 to appear outside of her home book in said book's main story (as opposed to popping up at the end in a cutscene) and who isn't another recurring character (such as Loki or Thorr.) (She shows up to deliver a message in book 5. Small role, but if you don't know who she is, you're going to be confused.)
Also, we don't meet the villain in book 5 (Eitri) until well into it (though she was on the book art.) Likewise, as I recall, we don't meet Hel right away either. I could be wrong about that, though, or just thinking about that one paralogue where we see her speak, but don't actually see her.
As for my calling the sleeping thing an invasion, it certainly was. Freyja was forcing people into a slumber, bringing them into the nightmare realm. How else do you expect the queen of nightmares to conquer a place? It was an atypical invasion because Freyja exists on a connected plane rather than being one on the same plane. It's a different method to the same end: subjugating everyone.
As for Fafnir, I thought it was fairly clear that he's a victim, not a villain. He was being controlled the whole time. The real book villain is Eitri.
As for book 4 being different, I actually think all of the books are unique to each other. I was only debunking the claim (which was general anyway) when I pointed that conquest thing out. Also, I'd like to point out that Freyja was never trying to do bodily harm. Her goal was to bring people into endless nightmares (so, more of a mental attack than a physical one) and she really did nearly succeed there. Someone's competency should be measured by the person's ability to achieve one's goals, not what one is not trying to achieve.
Anyway, those are just things I didn't think were quite accurate about your assessment, but am open to further discussion. And thanks; I appreciate your company as well. 🙂
That is true, Peony is introduced. I really hope she ends up being significant. Maybe a TT+ for her after Eir's? I'm just not confident they will do much with her because she doesn't have a clear goal at the moment. Unlike Triandra and Plumeria who have the goal to save Freyja.
We actually meet Hel in Chapter 3, and Eitri also in chapter 3. Which is not the very beginning, but only one month after and still a whole lot sooner than Freyja's lazy butt.
Honestly to me arguing that Etri is the main villain of Book VI is like arguing that Duma is the main villain of Gaiden, or Ashera is the main villain of Radiant Dawn. She may end up being the final boss of the book, but than she would be the only main villain in FEH that not only is fought just once, but also initally seemed like a good person.
I would call her something like a "twist villain" (which are rare in FE now that I think about it. I only remember the real villains of Radiant Dawn and Flame Emperor), or "the man behind the man" but the main antagonist of this story has been poor Fafnir. And I don't see why he can't be a villain just because he is sympathetic, a victim of somebody else's plans and was being controlled. The same is true for Lyon (main villain of Sacred Stones), Julius (main villain of Geneaology) and Hardin (main villain of book 2 of FE3). But at this point we may be arguing semantics. I'm willing to agree that the position of "main villain" is shared between multiple characters in this book, but Eitri being the sole main villain? Nah. Now that I think about it, it's actually best to say that they share the role, because if either of them is the sole main villain problems arise. If it's Eitri, she has less presence than her own pawn and is only fought once. If it's Fafnir, he is the only main villain to die before the last chapter. Wow, Book 6 is actually pretty unique too in some ways.
And yeah, fair about Freyja's actual plan not involving killing. She doesn't need to be totally incompetent to be the most pathetic villain. The fact she resorted to bluffing her way into (hopefully winning) when put into a corner is already evidence enough.
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Okay, since the topic of book 4 being different/not that different from the other books was brought up I have to throw my hat into the ring.
Book 4 is VERY different from the other books. Undeniably so. And it's not even necessarly a good thing. You want to know a major way in which book 4 is different from the other books?
Book 4 can be skipped. Even if you are someone that cares about the story of the game, nothing that happens in the book is important. There are only two things that happen that may be relevant in the future:
- Freiyja namedrops Alfador on us, which is the first time the Askr trio gets to know about the guy.
- Triandra and Plumeria now work for Lif, and this technically happened after the book was finished.
Everything else is pure filler and "character development" for Sharena.
Another major difference from other books. In all the other books we meet the main villain at the beginning. In book 4 we meet Freyja only in the second half of the story. And that observation about book 4 not starting with an invasion like the others rings very true. I'm sorry @Mercakete, I love you but it's a real stretch to call a weird sleeping curse that in the end didn't kill anyone the same as an outright invasion.
Speaking of "not killing anyone", it just occured to me that Freyja is the only main villain (other than Veronica. And i consider Fafnir a main villain) in all of FEH that didn't kill a named character to show how dangerous she was. Scratch that, she didn't kill anyone at all. Even Veronica killed some askrans with her invasion, I think. The only people whose deaths were kinda her fault are Freyr, Triandra and Plumeria, and they were killed by us, and also were the only three people she didn't want to die lmao! What a dunce. What a loser.
I don't think Freyja can be compared to other main villains by virtue of how actually pathetic and ineffectual she is. The others all had some dignity, even if they were monsters, while Freyja is more like a spoiled princess who acts high and mighty, but in reality is only capable of throwing a tantrum when things don't go her way. She is also the only villain who made empty threats and bluffed to try and stop us. When the other villains threaten the good guys they keep their word and actually kill them, or come very close (remember when Veronica almost smoked us in Book I?). Freyja told us Alfonse was dead and it was a lie to get under our skin and make us lose our cool.
I think some villains from the main series that were designed to be pathetic morons, like Narcian, are actually smarter and more dangerous than she is. The smartest decision she ever made was killing herself to ressurect two actually intelligent people who could actually accomplish something in their lives.
I'm surprised people don't realize how incompetent she was. Maybe because her design makes her look competent and threatening.
Anyway book 4 is arguably the worst written of all the books, other than maybe the pathetic book I, but you gotta admit, if nothing else it was different and unique.
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44 minutes ago, Florete said:
We didn't need the TT storyline in the first place.
All the FE lords with dead parents would like to have a word with you.
Alfonse shouldn't exist anyway.For the record, I don't actually have any issue with the above-mentioned characters, though the concept of characters existing for the sole purpose of developing someone else is a sign of poor writing.
True, but that doesn't mean that creating it was a bad idea. There was a desire by many people to see some of the old OCs have a role again, look at the good reception after they showed up in forging bonds for the first time, or when Peony showed up in Book 5. Look at how many people hope that Eir will get the same treatment after Fjorm's side-story is done. If you cared about one OC to the point of voting them in CYL (many OCs score pretty well), whaling for their alts and using them in PvP, chances are you care to know how their story continues.
Many people, me included, often wondered if Hrid and Laevatein would come to our rescue in a future book storyline, because they are friends with Askr, and it's not like they stopped existing just because we shifted our attention to a different kingdom. If we can't have that in the main book, side-stories are a good alternative.
TBH, I find your take so reductionist that it becomes cynic. We didn't need the story of Nifl and Muspell to exist. Sure. We also didn't really need the story of the Dream World to exist. And we don't need any other story to exist in the future really, aside from one that solves the Embla curse and Bruno's storyline. And also maybe let's stop Loki and Thorr once and for all. It can be done all in book 6 and after that we will only get filler paralogues with every new banner, forever.
Also since the TT+ storyline is bringing up some kind of lore about profecies and all the Divine Dragons of this world, for all we know some of the events and information from this TT+ will be vital for the final book.
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12 minutes ago, ARMADS!!! said:
Thats just... wow, thats a truly great idea, I never thought about that.
Just adding that Thorr probably wasn't in CYL for not spoiling the future of the story purpouses, I bet she will only be playable after we fight her as a boss (or kill her), so it didn't have anything to do with that. And I think Bruno is not playable yet for story purpouses too (I think he will join you in a later book, probably along with Veronica). But with the exception of this I basically agree with everything you said (I'm just not sure about the whole thing involving ascendant heroes but yeah, no one is yet so it doesn't matter). I wish IS had people like you working there, but unfortunately I think that for some reason they don't give a crap about pissing off the least amount of people as possible (otherwise we would have Nyna in the game already)
I don't know if it sounded like I was being ironic or mocking you for the way I'm saying it (in english it gives me the impression that this sounded kinda sarcastic), but I'm truly not, your idea is pretty good.
Just one more thing, I think that in reality some OCs may never be playable, like lots of FE games have characters that won't ever be playable, FEH will likely have some too. Their fans will be pissed of course, but thats what it is, not everyone can be added (but Camilla can have 8 alts). I think I like every OC, and I definitively care more about them than I'll ever care about Roshea and Vyland, but I get that no FE game will have 100% of their characters covered in the game, neither Heroes.
Thanks for the compliments ahah, but if IS hired me I would certainly do a terrible job since I don't have a clue about how to balance the game and my perspective as a collector certainly isn't good for all kinds of players.
About some OCs never being playable, I would have agreed before but we got every single final boss this far, so other than maybe the Final Final Boss I don't see who else would be excluded.
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3 minutes ago, Othin said:
That order doesn't sound right to me. They choose how many OCs to make, knowing that it takes resources on their end but that they'll have fans.
True they could just make less characters. But the problem is that forcing yourself to not create too many charcters can hurt your story. As of now certainly some characters are expendable (the Giants) but you kinda need Eitri to exist and all the Nidavellir siblings for the story to work. You need both Nifl and Muspell for the TT storyline to work. You need Gustav and Henriette to exist in order to make some character development for the protagonist.
And there are also many cases of OCs that are technically not necessary to the plot, but cutting them would make things worse. Like, Triandra and Plumeria are not necessary, we could have Freyja as a solitary villain. But then every chapter would either be filler, with like Ashnard as the main boss, or you fight Freyja 10 times in row with all tension and hype for a villain destroyed. We already have some people thinking we fought Surtr too many times in book 2, imagine if there were no princesses and no Helbindi. Never underestimate how important henchmen are, they bring variety and you are allowed to make weirder stuff because they aren't the main characters, so you can go wild.
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5 hours ago, Tybrosion said:
That revenant isn’t even a FEH original. It’s the design from Shadows of Valentia.
But yeah sure, have a FEH OC on every New Heroes banner just to have a FEH OC. That’s definitely the reason IS is doing this and I can’t possibly see how this idea might piss people off if it’s taken to absurd levels.
I was making a joke which I guess didn't go as well as I hoped. I thought actually asking for a generic monster to be playable was a dead giveaway, but that's on me.
Answering your actual criticism, honestly even if people will get upset about it, I don't see another solution.
It's not "having an OC with every banner just to have it". It's "we already made the OCs and we have to distribute them to the players somehow".
As I said in my post, let's take BOOK VI as an example. It added: Reginn, Otr, Fafnir, Nott, Dagr, Eitri, Nifl and Muspel. That's 8 new characters with brand new designs that people will pull for, because even the worst received one (Otr) is guaranteed to have more fans than VYLAND and ROSHEA. You have only 6 Mythic slots and there is also a line of old OCs waiting for their turn. That obviously isn't enough for everyone to get in, but picking favorites and only making some OCs playable will piss the fans off. I have seen people genuinely angry because we don't have Freyr, Bruno and Gustav. And people swearing that they would throw all their votes towards Thorr if she was votable in CYL.
The old saying that every Fire Emblem character is someone favorite character rings true for the OCs as well, especially if a good chunk of the community has played only a couple, or even zero games outside of Heroes. But even if the Mythic slots were enough/they made less character for book VII, fans of other games will be pissed, especially if they have no mythic at all yet (hello Sacred Stones fans).
If you risk pissing the fans of Heroes off, or the fans of older games off the most reasonable solution is finding a third way that ends with less people pissed.
And dividing the OCs equally between New Heroes banners and Mythic banners is a good compromise, even if I would prefer they all end up on New Heroes banner.
And I hear some people argue that they would prefer if things were like 2018, with the Generals of Muspell banner getting all the OCs in one go (and even then it wasn't in one go. We were missing Surtr, Loki Hrid and Ylgr) and wanting the OCs to get their own banner so they don't have to be shoehorned into banners destroying whatever theme they have.
And I don't agree at all with this idea. That would actually steal the spot from a true New Heroes banner, as if Fallen Heroes wasn't enough. That would actually reduce the amount of Fire Emblem characters we get in a year. I question the priorities of people who prefer a better theme for a banner over getting more units from games other than Heroes. I guess it comes with the Pro of 1 "skip" banner guaranteed every year for the fans that just hate the OCs, so that's something. And if the problem is that we get one less 5-star for a specific game that ends up as a 3-star insteas, I still don't think that's a problem. If the alternative is getting the token third 5-star Hero who is 5-star in name only and pity breaks people causing a lot of salt like Lugh, Hubert and Fiora, then it's better if they end up as 3-star heroes instead. They remain bad units, but at least they don't break your pity rate.
If you have other ideas to make both the fans of older games and the OCs enjoyers somewhat happy I would love to hear them.
Another solution would be to make the weird Triandra and Freyja Mythic banner the new standard, doubling the Mythic slots we get in a year. That could work but doesn't address the problem of other games needing mythics too.
EDIT: And in the case of Ascended Heroes specifically, it's too soon to tell. As other people said, they may not be limited to OCs, and we may get Ascended Ike soon. And if they are limited to OCs I hope we don't get them every month because that would really throw a wrench in the "getting every OC playable plan" stealing a slot not from regular Heroes, but from other OCs. On the other hand, even Seasonal Slots have weight, so depending on who you ask if Fjorm getting an alt as a Bonus unit in a New Heroes banner means she frees up a spot for a seasonal alt for a character from another game that's a positive too.
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1 hour ago, ARMADS!!! said:
I don't get why people say that they rather have champion Fjorm, Nifl and Muspell as regular units instead of mythics (except for the "OCs stealing other characters' place as mythic"). I think it would be better if they were all mythics, like the chance of summoning one of them would be way higher (and usually in Mythic/Legendary events you always get something good, even if it wasnt exactly what you're looking for)
Consider this specific point of view, that I don't think many have.
There are going to be 6 mythics added every year, and that doesn't change (for the purpose of this argument let's consider every Mythic added in a New Heroes banner as a Normal Hero, and let's also ignore the weird exception of Triandra and Freyja added at the same time). With every New Heroes banner there are 5 character additions, BUT that can change. Because every time an OC like Nifl, Nott or Muspell gets added to New Heroes banners we get 6 character additions. If you are someone with no particular tastes, or characters that you dislike, getting 6 characters instead of 5 is an amazing deal and you would want that every time.
And it's not like because we get OCs on regular banners now they stopped giving us OCs on Mythic banners. We just got Otr. If anything it's just convenient because even if we stopped getting Mythics from other FE games, with only six slots per year, the fact that every books adds around six OCs every time, plus bonus OCs thrown in out of nowher like Thorr and those we left behind and still need to get one day like regular versions of Freyr, Gustav, Henriette, Veronica and Bruno, etc. we would never catch up and the game would die without us ever getting to play as some of the OCs.
I will say what I think, even if many will disagree. Every single New Heroes banner should have six characters added with the OC trick (doesn't matter if they count as ascended, mythic or just regular heroes) and we should stop getting OCs on Legendary and Mythics banner. And suddenly the goal of getting all 12 crusaders, for example, will become more realizable.
EDIT: And when I say every single New Heroes banner I mean it! Give us Undead Gustav on Fallen Heroes and with every CYL let's randomly add an NPC like that one villager recently added to the game, or that one dancing Revenant. As a treat. I mean as bonus quest reward obviously. Even I am not crazy enough to suggest kicking a CYL winner out of the CYL banner.
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3 hours ago, Othin said:
I also like how the base game got a male:female ratio of 4:1. Has that ever happened before? It's what they'll need to really dig further into rosters like this.
One banner was Duo Ephraim/Lyon, Gerik, Ewan, Tethys, and Ross as a free unit. 5:1 ratio. Absolutely insane.
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There is a free slot in green and Triandra and Hel are "good units" so... maybe Xander with Bolverk?
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WOOO-OOOOH!!! BS Fire Emblem representation! Very cool IS, very cool. Now give me substitute units and we are good, all is forgiven.
Anyway I love the character selection for this banner. Outside of how awesome Malice is, I appreciate that they went with the Wolfguard and left nobody behind (this is a Mystery of the Emblem banner, and we already have that game's Hardin, so he wasn't left behind in my book. Even if he was, it's not that much of a problem when the most popular one is the one left behind, because they are guaranteed to come eventually. Sure eventually might mean in a couple years because of how slow this game is at adding units, but come on FE1 Hardin is not a character particularly at risk of never getting in the game, same thing for Nyna) since it's really annoying when just one or two characters from a particular group miss their chance.
Cases like the Four Heavenly Knights without Pamela, the Greil Mercs without Boyd, the Awakening kids without Laurent, and whoever will be left behind when the Dawn Brigade finally gets in the game (Aran, Laura, Meg, Volug and Fiona are all at risk) are all bad situations and I was fully prepared to see the same thing again, so I'm very pleasantly surprised.
And oh yeah, Ascended Heroes. I don't mind them personally, I just hope they don't become the only OCs in New Heroes banners because if they do we lose the convenience of other OCs like Nott not getting the Mythic Banner slot, leaving it free for lore-characters. If they balance Mythic Heroes and Ascended Heroes on New Heroes banners it would be perfect IMO, because let's face it an OC is kinda needed on almost every new hero banner nowadays.
I can see Three Houses, TMS, Fates, maybe Tellius, maybe Awakening and maybe Genealogy being able to sell a banner well with only their own characters, but for every other game the situation is dire. The most popular male characters are already in, and most female characters PERIOD are already in.
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I'm going with Duo Leif this time, but it would be amazing if Virion won.
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4 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:
Meanwhile, the current icon is about as androgynous as it gets.
LOL fair enough. I let myself be blinded by the fact I already got to know Reginn and learned what a cutie she is, and that prevented me from judging the icon on its own. But hey, maybe it means they are getting better about this, and a man as the face of the app isn't as unlikely as I thought. I still believe it will be a man that looks like a woman first.
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This is a random theory I came up with and wanted to share. Since book 2 we received a free OC to be the second main character of the story (after Alfster) for every book and they have always been female. This bias obviously brought many complaints, combined with the scarse number of male OCs in general.
But why do they refuse to give us what we ask for, even once? Is it because we are a vocal minority and for every complaint they receive 20 e-mails of praise for the new female main character each book? No.
Is it because they are afraid of shaking things up and so they continue to make free female OCs because it's what worked before? No.
Is it because they have an hard-on for Kirit-EGHM Alfonse and they don't want another male main character that could steal some of his popularity? No.
Do they believe that a male OC can't sell a new book? Close, but not quite.
I think the actual problem isn't that they think a male OC can't sell the new book. They think a male OC can't sell the game.
What do I mean? Well a gacha game is always seeking out new players, so let's assume that they can't attract new players on name recognition alone because every single fan of Fire Emblem already tried the game. How do they attract new players, then? Say, what do people look at to judge a book? The cover. And what's on the cover (app icon) of FEH? The free OC who is always a cute girl. And there lies the problem. Since the beginning we always had a cute girl on the cover to represent this game and tell people: "hey you can collect cute girls in this app! Download now!"
(Now that I think of it, could the fact we can't collect the OG cute girl Veronica be considered false advertising?).
So that's the problem, the damn app icon. As stupid and shallow a reason as it may sound it makes more sense than them hating males/not believing males can sell. Because if they thought that, than why did they make Muspell male? They could have gotten away with all the gods of Zenith being women (including Alfador lol) but they didn't go for it.
So does this mean we are doomed to never get a free male because he can't properly advertize a Waifu-game? Not really, they just have to realize they are not obligated to make the free OC the face of the app every time. For example, imagine a book that concludes the Embla subplot. They could give us Bruno as the free unit and use Veronica as the app icon again. They could give us a male OC for the final book vs Alfador and use Thorr and Loki as the icon.
So in conclusion they can give us a free male OC as long as they stop for two seconds to think of a reason why a cute female OC is the actual face of the book (say IS, wouldn't it be cool to have Sharena be the face of the app for a year? She is very cute).
Another solution would be to make a free OC who is just this world's Lucius. They can get away with using him as the face of the game.
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Pelleas was added. You forgot to remove him from the list.
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Don't mind me just quoting myself cuz I posted in the wrong place.
14 minutes ago, GrandeRampel said:Well, what can I say? On principle I like this banner, lots of characters with no/few alts, the first F2P friendly staff flier (I mean, picking Camilla as your CYL3 choice was pretty F2P friendly imho) and also a male/male harmonic. Those are all positive things for the game, but I've gotta admit that I am not that invested. It's a shame we didn't get any new characters since Jugdral especially needs to squeeze in the many missing characters from their roster, but we did get Lifis and Vika last month, so it's whatever. Lewyn being GEN-2 would be pretty cool if confirmed and since he is the demote I will try for him and maybe Julia.
And speaking of Julia, I get being disappointed by her, but she just made history. We can finally make Julia Emblem, which is the first GotW emblem team possible. Some people probably think that having an emblem is a disgrace and no character should have four versions but I think it's just one more step towards equality.
Heroes has Alfonse, Veronica and Laevatein, Mystery has Marth and Caeda, Echoes has the lords, Binding has Roy and Lilina, Blazing has the lords, Sacred Stones had the lords, Radiant Dawn has Micaiah, Awakening has Chrom and many others, Fates has Camilla and many others, 3 Houses has Edelgard and Dimitri.
And now Genealogy has Julia, and without caveats like being the backpack of a Duo (RIP Camilla's dream of being the first character with two emblem teams) or having different names (RIP Brigid, Camus, Inigo, Masked Marth and others). We are now only missing Path of Radiance (easily solvable with another Ike) and Thracia (easily solvable with another Reinhardt or Leif. Or two more Mareeta IDK). Maybe I'm alone in giving this some kind of importance but just like people are happy with having an harmonic for each game, I'm happy for this.
And also can't wait until we finally have a legendary (RIP Path of Radiance. L!Ashnard when?) and Mythic (RIP Sacred Stones. M!Morva when? RIP Thracia. Can M!Julius count as being from this game for his 5 seconds of screentime like Ishtar? RIP Path of Radiance again, can Dheg or Lehran count as being from PoR for no reason, pls?) for each game too.
Oh and obviously RIP TMS for all of the above.
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Well, what can I say? On principle I like this banner, lots of characters with no/few alts, the first F2P friendly staff flier (I mean, picking Camilla as your CYL3 choice was pretty F2P friendly imho) and also a male/male harmonic. Those are all positive things for the game, but I've gotta admit that I am not that invested. It's a shame we didn't get any new characters since Jugdral especially needs to squeeze in the many missing characters from their roster, but we did get Lifis and Vika last month, so it's whatever. Lewyn being GEN-2 would be pretty cool if confirmed and since he is the demote I will try for him and maybe Julia.
And speaking of Julia, I get being disappointed by her, but she just made history. We can finally make Julia Emblem, which is the first GotW emblem team possible. Some people probably think that having an emblem is a disgrace and no character should have four versions but I think it's just one more step towards equality.
Heroes has Alfonse, Veronica and Laevatein, Mystery has Marth and Caeda, Echoes has the lords, Binding has Roy and Lilina, Blazing has the lords, Sacred Stones had the lords, Radiant Dawn has Micaiah, Awakening has Chrom and many others, Fates has Camilla and many others, 3 Houses has Edelgard and Dimitri.
And now Genealogy has Julia, and without caveats like being the backpack of a Duo (RIP Camilla's dream of being the first character with two emblem teams) or having different names (RIP Brigid, Camus, Inigo, Masked Marth and others). We are now only missing Path of Radiance (easily solvable with another Ike) and Thracia (easily solvable with another Reinhardt or Leif. Or two more Mareeta IDK). Maybe I'm alone in giving this some kinf of importance but just like people are happy with having an harmonic for each game, I'm happy for this.
And also can't wait until we finally have a legendary (RIP Path of Radiance. L!Ashnard when?) and Mythic (RIP Sacred Stones. M!Morva when? RIP Thracia. Can M!Julius count as being from this game for his 5 seconds of screentime like Ishtar? RIP Path of Radiance again, can Dheg or Lehran count as being from PoR for no reason, pls?) for each game too.
Oh and obviously RIP TMS for all of the above.
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I will add to your Arvis idea and say that as less and less protagonists remain as options, it becomes more probable for main antagonists to get one.
Legendary Zephiel will happen if the game doesn't die in a year or so, mark my words. Legendary Ishtar is also possible, and legendary Berkut like you said. And I know that Tellius is one of the casts that definetely isn't starving for reasonable options (Elincia, Sanaki, Soren, Sothe, Tibarn, Nailah, Reyson, Gawain, the list goes on) but I think Legendary Zelgius would be received well and also finally give us a red armore Zelgius without having to make a non-seasonal alt that steals a slot from a Tellius banner.
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On 8/11/2021 at 3:36 AM, Mercakete said:
That said, I find that my version of a male-only FEH is indeed more serious in tone, and I believe that I may have traumatized Alfonse a lot more than IS did. Whoops.
That tends to happen when you don't have an optimistic little sister with you to distract from all the trauma. Nevermind that canon Alfonse has at least a parent alive, while Male-Only Alfonse is orphan of both parents. Jeez, you are cruel, Mercakete. You could have saved Gustav's life in some way.
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9 hours ago, Mercakete said:
And THAT said, "ugh, another female Heroes character." You know that since she has a name and is female, we'll probably get a version of her at some point. Not quite complaining, but I feel bad for Heroes' unloved dudes.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Helbindi's named sister Menja is still nowhere to be found and we are also missing Veronica's mom who is confirmed still alive.
In fact I find it sus that they descibed her as extremely similar to Fjorm. Almost as an excuse to never pay money to draw her since "we know what she looks like".
8 hours ago, Mercakete said:I figured that was a possibility. I just hope it gets addressed instead of left hanging (like who the heck Tiki's dad is.)
I raise you a better one. Who the heck is Robin's mom???
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@Mercakete Oh you clever little sneak, I see what you did there. But I have to call it cheating anyway. You didn't rewrite Book IV, it just happened exactly the same with Kiran dreaming of being Alfonse fighting the Evil Goat Lady. You simply chose to show what Alfonse has been dreaming about in the meantime.
Since we don't know what Alfonse dreamt your little story might just become canon by sheer coincidence in the future. I will accept it as headcanon in the meantime. Good read.
It sucks we will have to wait months for your rewriting of book 5.
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If it's not too much of a bother, then yes. PM when you post it.
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@Mercakete I gotta say I am mighty curious about how you are going to tackle book 4 if you aren't going to use Shadow Freyr or introduce a brand new OC. Even if it's shorter a whopping ONE character to tell a story seems too little.
And about Loki, I wasn't talking about her importance as a character, but her importance as a tool. If Alfador isn't foreshadowed in any way we lose all the build-up. Upon his introduction we would have no reason to believe he is the big bad, heck we would think he is another Surtr and the character who was actually foreshadowed (Embla) will be the big bad.
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That they were lovers is technically speculation. What is certain is that Nifl felt romantic love towards her, because I'm sorry deniers but you don't talk that way about your best friend.
But even if they confirm that the love was requited it doesn't mean that Hvergel cheated. Her husband could have died. They could have had a polygamous relationship.
An husband may have never existed at all and Nifl made her pregnant with her divine powers. If the christian god can do it, I don't see why she can't.
Hey, Freyja produced one good meme. The Freyr plushie. It's better than nothing.