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No, no! I didn't say they were supposed to be lovers, what I meant was that they do sorta fall in love (because they start with the love points almost at max, at 490), and I think it's important that they precisely DON'T get to end up together, because that falls in the theme that Seliph doesn't commit the same mistakes as his father. Had Seliph rushed to marry Julia like Sigurd rushed to marry Deirdre (without knowing shit about her such as that she's Cigyun's kid- and he knew Cygiun's story- and therefore the princess that is being persecuted by the Loptous cult and by proxy would know that Arvis might have Loptous blood, or that she had a marking in the middle of her forehead), he would be marrying his own sister, I always saw the thing of them starting with 490 love points as they both being into each other (cause, well, that's what it's supposed to represent) but then not rushing it, and then they find out they're related (so the love points grow negatively, because now they don't want it anymore). I meant that at the time the game were made, they'd probably want to make Seliph and Julia be of opposite sexes, because of this. Yes, I always saw it as the point. They liked each other but waited, and were rewarded for waiting until they knew who the hell the other one was. In gen 1, they even made it a point to mention on chapter 2's starting text that Sigurd and Deirdre married "immediately", so you know they didn't take the time to know anything about the other, and if they had, they could probably be able to try to stop the cult. Julia and Seliph did, so they're not commiting the same mistakes as their parents.

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To be honest, I'd actually like it (but would probably rather if it wasn't right now, cause she just got an alt and I don't wanna be sick of her so soon, still would like it better than if it was a character that I give a negative amount of shits about, like Alear).

It's not the dismounting comment that I was thinking, I had already heard of that one too but the "Seliph was supposed to be a woman" thing was heard in other place, I suspect it might not be true exactly because it was from some "underground" source (like a random Reddit comment in a sorta unrelated thread, or a random post in a SF topic, something like that), the statement was that Seliph was planned to be a woman and that that was probably why he bad Deirdre's face but that eventually it was scrapped. I'm almost sure I read it more than once too (although maybe I just revisited the place I read it for the first time - as I'm always revisiting threads - or it could just be some eccho chambered comment that has no basis), but of course, seeing it more than once doesn't mean anything... Regardless of whether this information is true, I'd find it cool if Seliph was a women too, I think he's one of the few lords I wouldn't mind at all being gender swapped. I think Seliph ended up being shallow because a lot of what they wanted to do with him was to follow a theme/to put light on what he represents and not in his personality, like how a bunch of characters in Apollo Justice turned out to be (ex: they wanted to make the character that is usually a dick be a good guy but were to stuck to this idea so he ended up being shallow, etc), at least that's how I see it, not that this makes it better, I really think he could have been less bland. I figure that something as simple as making Seliph a women would've made it more interesting too, first for being new and different from the other lords at the time as you said (and interesting to see a girl inheriting from her dad, one thing I like a lot about Leif is that they made the male kid not be the one that can inherit the Gaé Bolg, with Seliph it'd create a similar interest from me) and then because they mention how hard it became to be a women in gen 2 so having a female lord there would have been badass. Julia would have to be a man then, I guess, considering that they are supposed to sorta fall in love (maybe that was the reason Seliph's gender was flipped, if that was ever even an actual idea?), obviously not to say it couldn't be two women, it's just that I seriously doubt they'd do this at that time considering that the first openly and undeniably lgbt characters (let alone lord) in the series were Heather and Kyza like 6 games later. Also, Lyn does have her own story, I get you meant her participation in Hector/Eliwood mode but at the end of the day she did get her short standalone story that was all about her. Also doesn't Edelgard have her stand alone story in 3 Houses and 3 Hopes? I'm not exactly sure how standalone each path of 3 Houses is (or if it's something like 4 versions of the same story - except that the side you're on wins- sorta like Sonic Adventure) that's why I ask. In any case, yeah, just 2 is very little, the series could use more standalone female lords, and a game with gen 1 and 2 would have been a good opportunity, in case they didn't want to make a game with no male lord at all. Oh, nice to know. FE7 and 8 both came after the GBA SP then? That's why they didn't have to be that bright? Still, they could've make FE6 be bright in a less offputting way (like Sonic Advance, Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland, Ace Attorney, etc, which are all games that came a bit before FE6).

I made a google search right now and couldn't find anything. How far did he go after Tanya's death? If you two think it was an unfair death, can't he just go back on his last save state (or even restart the chapter) to avoid her death? I don't know anything about save editors, etc, so maybe there is some way, but I didn't find anything about that. You can ask around for save states too if you think it's worth it. All I found was this list with cheats on GameFaqs, I don't know exactly how it's gonna work cause I didn't test it myself, but maybe you can select Tanya's code and choose her HP to be anything above 0. I don't know, good luck to you and your friend. Also just out of curiosity, what was it that you told him (the "certain information") and what where the risks he took?

Regardless of whether M!Alear or M!Corrin get a legendary now, I'm sure both will get a sword simply because "chick is dragon and dude gets a sword". I'd like it if at least one of then were to be a dragon, but I guess that's not too important now since it seems a bit unlikely for it to be either Engage or Fates anyway... I agree that M!Shez looks like a very possible option, I overlooked him completely. Although F!Shez had fire blessing, but both Byleths had different blessings so that's probably not an issue.

I read once that Seliph has Deirdre's face because he was planned to be a woman during a big part of the development, thought I don't know if that's really true, or just some fan theory trying to justify why he has Deirdre's face, or if some part is true (for example, Seliph initially being supposed to be a woman) and then someone just made up the rest. O̶b̶v̶i̶o̶u̶s̶l̶y̶,̶ ̶A̶r̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶E̶l̶d̶i̶g̶a̶n̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶a̶d ̶k̶i̶d̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶.̶(Joking --before anyone jumps at me. They totally have a cloning machine though, I mean, look at all these "triplets", and Andrey's son too) Pretty cool document, thanks for sharing. Once I tried to keep track of every recolor character of FE4 but then I got lazy and gave up (only kept notes of some in my head such as Aida and Liza, the lady of the lake and Queen Lahna, and the recolor of Chagall). I remembered Ishtore being a recolor of some gen 1 guy too, but guess I was wrong, I just had to check a video of the cutscenes to be sure and I can't believe I spent so long thinking he was a recolor... Also, not sure if you count the villagers, as they mostly just share sprites with other villagers, but there's this one villager with the same sprite of Filat, he's the dude that gives the restore staff in chapter 3, and for some reason is the only villager with this sprite to show up on the game, while every other villager sprite is repeated several times. EDIT: Ironically, Eldigan and Ares are less similar than I thought they were, I thought they were just a recolor from each other but identical otherwise, but Ares actually has different eyes and even different clothes! Also part of Eldigan's hair seems to be slicked back/tied up (right behind his years) while Ares's hair is down, it's ridiculously subtle but it's cool that he doesn't use the exact same hairstyle of his dad that likely died before he could remember the way he used his hair. Ares also has a slightly bigger nose, seeing them side by side really makes it easier to notice that they're not identical.

Oh yeah, I ignored the possibility of it being a double thing again... Guess it'd be a good opportunity since we have Gullveig and Kvasir here as you said, and another Emblem hero now would be good both to add to the pool and to be Profitable™. I'd like a staff Emblem Celica a lot (since she already had so many times but never a staff) but at the same time I really want a staff Legendary cause surprisingly we never had one. Oh, I like so much when they complete sets! (Except when it's something I'm sick of, like a bunch of things related to 3 Houses, but alas). Honestly I don't particularly care about Engage, Ivy's family, or Hyacinth (didn't know who he is until 5 seconds ago), and there's several options of Legendaries that I'd prefer over it, buuuuut at the same time I like to hype older dudes (and to own badass dudes) and he looks pretty cool, so if it was Hyacinth I'd be very likely to try to get him. He uses what, staff and magic?

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I think that, ironically, FE8 has more saturated colors than FE7 in general, at least if my memory serves me right. I remember a few characters that felt a bit more saturated than they had to be in FE8, though of course it's not near as bad as in FE6 (I wouldn't even say it's bad at all -- in FE8 I mean, it's just that they're notably more saturated than in FE7). I think that it's part of the core FE fan experience to be enchanted with the difference in the quality of the portraits between FE4 and FE5. Simply the fact that FE5's sprites got such a glowup in comparision to FE4's make me see the visuals of the game as a whole in a way higher regard that I would otherwise. Also, while I like FE4 official art and the designs... GOD THE SPRITES ARE UGLY! I mean, I'm used to them by now but the first time I saw them (was when I decided to play FE4 right after FE7 and saw the first cutscene of the prologue) I decided to leave the game for later and play FE6 instread cause I thought that liking the series a bit more before playing FE4 would make me more likely to go throught those ugly portraits. Now it doesn't actually bother me anymore, they even grew on me a bit, but if I had to make a list of the characters I find beautiful on the game (based on how the portraits look), the list would have some 5 people and that's it, the rest looks neutral or worse. I gotta admit that I like TMS style a lot, some specific designs are sorta ridiculous but the visuals of the game are very pretty, I like the arstyle, the colors,... If it was a mainline game I'd like it less for being too anime for a mainline, but as it is I don't mind, it's the same as when they make a character get an alt in FEH and it has a very animey artsyle but looks awesome. Also, either way, even if it was too animey, at least it looks very pretty, unlike Engage, that looks horrible to me and I detest the artstyle. If Engage had a better artstyle, I'd even mind the weird design a bit less. I don't mind 3 Houses artstyle either, I mean, it's among my least favorite ones (but having games with such beautiful protraits as FE5, PoR, RD, Awakening and Fates, it'd be hard to be on the higher end of the list) but I don't dislike it at all, I'd consider it right in the middle. I get what you mean by the eyes but I personally don't mind it, I think it looks pretty even. It will never beat Wada Sachiko's, Kita Senri's and Kozaki Yusuke's arts, and it doesn't have the charm of some of the older portraits (including GBA, that has a very cool variety between the characters' faces), but it's also not bad as Shadow Dragon or Engage. I'm talking artsyle only right now, if I have to count the design of their clothes and all then the list changes a lot in terms of what I find good or bad (for one, the actual designs in Shadow Dragon are actually pretty good, Jotari even made a post with the Shadow dragon characters portraits in GBA and it makes you really notice how good the designs are per se).

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In the Event Calendar topic, it arised the theory that it could be Male Corrin or the Fates siblings (or rather, I brought up the rest of the Fates siblings but anyway), I agreed with the possibility before but now thinking back on it, I have the impression that they avoid doing 2 legendaries from the same title in a row (it was specially notable when they were releasing the 3 Houses lords + Byleth and always made one non 3 Houses legendary between each, 2 between Edelgard and Dimitri), the only two cases I know of 2 legendaries of the same title in a row are Tiki and Marth in 2018 and Fjorm and Gunthrá in 2017 but I feel like even then they tended to avoid it (as Hector and Lyn were separated by one other person too). Maybe it's just a massive coincidence that it never happaneded again on the past 6 years... But I think it might something to consider, the last Legendary was Camilla so maybe they won't do another Fates one right now. I think Adult Tiki probably might get a legendary someday, and her blessing would probably be Earth like her young self's, and she could be any color so colorless and red would be fair game, though I'm not sure if Emblem Marth would destroy this theory, as he is not a Legendary hero, I don't know if they avoid making Mythics (and now Emblems) be from the same titles as the Legendary that came just before/after too.

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Yeah! I'd love Beloved one! And I want the songs that play on Feh too, no clue why they don't add these. It'd be specially awesome to have that metal theme from book III playing as my castle theme. "Writhe" too, they made a whole music clip for that AND THE SONG NEVER PLAYS ON THE GAME OR WAS ADDED IN ANY WAY! At least book V's remix theme was included on the concert hall but why didn't they put Writhe too? "Forseti the wind warrior" is the same song as Music Box (it's easier to notice if you speed up Music Box to 1,25x), but not being played in a music boxey tune, so they could add this one if they saw Music Box as too calm. I also want them to add: Arvis theme, End of Despair from FE4, any version of Theme of Love (can even be the Heroes one), Guinivere's theme, more Gaiden songs because I love how they sound, Verdane army, Adean theme, the boss theme of FE6 that plays during Narcian's battle (I still don't know the name of it but I'll find out someday...), refreshing themes from the dancers would be nice but they're pretty short so idk how that'd work, The A rank ending theme of FE4,, any rcruitment themes, Idunn's theme, the Vs Medeus theme from FE1, the final boss theme from FE7. Sure there's more too but I think that's enough of a list for now lol.

So we approach another Legendary banner, it should be up on the 28th/29th depending on where you are on the world. Here's the rerun table, for who wants it: This month should be either red or colorless. People were mentioning on this month's Event Calendar topic some days ago that the blessing will probably be Earth. Well, you know the deal, share your guesses, theories, and wants (or not wants) about the upcoming banner here.

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You mean you used 3 Fallen Edelgards in pvp modes or in regular game modes? Cause maybe F!Edel did break pvp (but I don't play most pvp modes most of the time so I can't have a solid opinion here), I stopped hating her that much after I decided to aquire a +6 or +7 Petrine (which coincidentally is f2p, even though I was not making a point about older f2ps being good) and took her to whatever game modes with CYL Camilla and Plumeria/Triandra (both of which were always on my team anyway so that part wasn't a problem), the annoying part was that I always had to have that Petrine around (specially in modes like AR, and maybe TT-not sure if F!Edelgard had been banished from TTs already) even if she wasn't one of my favorite units, although I have always been on the lowest tiers of AR (and never played it much) so that probably played its part too. Of course, I did suffer in F!Edelgard's hands like everyone, but after I started to keep that Petrine around it almost destroyed the problem for me (unless when I had to deal with multiple F!Edelgards at once), tbh who caused me more problems was Ninja Camilla, as the only counter I had to her- for a long time- was herself (and mine had a Res bane so she was fucked a lot of time, even after I gave her Phantom res, there were other Ninjamillas with merges and flowers and whatever else that would kill her anyway), I got mine on a majestically lucky free summon and if I hadn't then I have no clue of what I'd have done to counter her (also to count her, I had to start keeping Ninjamilla + Plumeria + Muspell around, always, so I had to have 3 units I sometimes disn't want always on my team instead of just 1 as it was with Petrine). I can definitively see an Aum/Valkyrie staff-like mechanic in a duo or harmonic skill (or yeah, in a prf weapon/assist that has a "countdown" like Heidr's and L!Ninian's). Even if it revived the ally only with half or 25% of their HP or something it'd still be broken. Also, now that I recalled Surtr, it'd be nice if someday he got a refine and they made his 20 damage thing more viable so he'd go back to being great (idk, something like giving him a bigger area of damage, maybe units in cardinal directions to make it really gross but not TOO much). EDIT: AH WAIT! You said Brave Edelgard broke the game, not Fallen. Yeah, I did play even less pvp before so I hardly saw her around but when I did I knew I was fucked, my only counter to her was herself too (since, luckily, she was free my pick) and even then it didn't always work. She was also always in my team and soloed the hardest maps, basically the same thing Ninja Camilla have been doing for me up until this christmas paralogue or so, except that she kept being among my best units for some good 2 years while Ninjamilla lasted for one. It probably sorta came back after B!Edelgard's refine didn't it? I was barely playing the game at the time it came out though (let alone any pvp mode) so I didn't manage to see it.