Is there any reason why Tiki and Sairi Cannot S rank anyone except MU?

[GamingPandas]

Is there any reason why Tiki and Sairi can ONLY S rank with male MU?

Why can't they S rank with other characters? I have not played any FE games before so I have no knowledge how their history.

I know Tiki is thousands of years old but she is probably 20/young adult in human ages.

But what about Sairi? She seems to be 20 too? So why not?

[Fanfaire]

It's part of being a Main Character.

Doesn't FeMU have supports only she can reach S with too?

[Onestep]

Well, both characters come from a country in Varm, rather than being centralised around Iris, like pretty much everybody else (except Basilio and Flavia, who are also MU only.)

Since her brother is dead, Sairi will probably have to return to rule her country after the war, which means that only MU is really free to go with her. Tiki also seems to intend to return there once the war is done. Of course, this is fairly flimsy logic that can easily be dismantled, but eh.

More realistically, the MU-only characters probably exist so that MU will ALWAYS have a selection of individuals to marry, even if you marry off everyone else. Male MU comes off better than Female MU here, especially with no DLC.

But really MU just has so much swag that he is contractually obligated to be covered in the proverbial opposite gender jockying for his attention.

Edited October 21, 2012 by Onestep

[Book of Ereshkigal]

Maybe they were just never planned to have kids, then someone went 'why not MU?'

[GamingPandas]

Well, both characters come from a country in Varm, rather than being centralised around Iris, like pretty much everybody else (except Basilio and Flavia, who are also MU only.)

Since her brother is dead, Sairi will probably have to return to Varm after the war, which means that only MU is really free to go with her. Tiki also seems to intend to return there once the war is done. Of course, this is fairly flimsy logic that can easily be dismantled, but eh.

More realistically, the MU-only characters probably exist so that MU will ALWAYS have a selection of individuals to marry, even if you marry off everyone else. Male MU comes off better than Female MU here, especially with no DLC.

But really MU just has so much swag that he is contractually obligated to be covered in the proverbial opposite gender jockying for his attention.

SWATAGONIST!

[nocturnal YL]

I'll answer this with gameplay as the reason. Characters outside of the parent-child system includes Sairi, Tiki, Basilio, Flavia, Gangrel, Emelina, Valhart, Inverse, Renha and Paris, and they have one thing in common: joining the army after Chapter 13, when the existence of the children is known. I think for some reason, IS wants to make it so that it is possible to clear Sidequests 5 to 16 right after Chapter 13.

[Thunder Sage]

Is there any reason why Tiki and Sairi can ONLY S rank with male MU?

Why can't they S rank with other characters? I have not played any FE games before so I have no knowledge how their history.

I know Tiki is thousands of years old but she is probably 20/young adult in human ages.

But what about Sairi? She seems to be 20 too? So why not?

I can think of a couple of reasons;

1)

Anna

Tiki

Sairi

Gangerel

Valhart

Inverse

Bastilo

Flavia

Renha

Emelina

Paris

All of these characters are side quest characters and I suspect did not have children in the original timeline or were not recruited, and would not be able to have children without bringing in more timeline confusion (as most of the children would be from a separate timeline) or making all of their children amnesic like Mark .

2) Many of the characters above would not have children with anyone but Mu, as MU is extremely charismatic and able to interact with everyone in the Army very easily and with some characters such as Emelina and Inverse I doubt many in the army would approach them or be able to forge a believable relationship with them in 4 supports.

3) From the developers point of view it would involve creating too many supports (they haven't even given Sairi one with Renha, Chrom and Liz one with Emelina nor do I believe thatt hey change Nn and Tiki's conversation when Mark is recruited) .

4) With Tiki it would to some degree make it canonical that she had a child which would be difficult for the developers if Tiki appears again as they would not be able to include the child ( hair color would give the father away) and they would have to explain it's absence

Edited October 21, 2012 by Thunder Sage

[NeonZ]

3) From the developers point of view it would involve creating too many supports (they haven't even given Sairi one with Renha, Chrom and Liz one with Emelina nor do I believe thatt hey change Nn and Tiki's conversation when Mark is recruited) .

4) With Tiki it would to some degree make it canonical that she had a child which would be difficult for the developers if Tiki appears again as they would not be able to include the child ( hair color would give the father away) and they would have to explain it's absence

As far as developers go, I don't think it's the supports, but the children. If any of those female characters had gotten full support options, they'd need to add more children characters. The only Male characters with children of their own are Krom and MU after all, and Krom has to have a child before any of those characters can be recruited. So, that leaves only Mark as a possible child for them. As far as the late male characters go, I guess it was just a matter of consistency. It'd be weird if only the late female characters were kept from standard pairings while the late male characters could still be paired up with early female characters.Making MU, male or female, their only possible pair avoids those issues.

As far as hair color goes, they seem to just give every child the same hair color as their mother's in some promotional material.

Edited October 21, 2012 by NeonZ