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"Peasants murdered my family" is not actually a reasonable rationale for hating all peasants everywhere, especially when the peasants in question were starving while you enjoyed all the creature comforts afforded by feudalism. I feel like Fernand would work better if he was just a period-accurate shitlord, rather than giving him a dumb backstory that was supposed to make him sympathetic.
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Wasn't Maribelle also a secret country gal like Calill, or did I make that up?
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Jul 19, 2018 16:19
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Ah, fair enough. I've only married her to Gregor, and their supports mostly flesh out how amazing Gregor is. I can't imagine Brady as anything but a war priest who is the son of Gregor the berserker.
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I gotta be honest, I forgot Vaike even existed. I benched him as soon as I had the chance, made Gregor my axe person, and never looked back. I don't even recall why I disliked him, but the character never appealed to me.
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Jul 19, 2018 21:29
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Conquest is my favorite of all FE plots. Yes it's dumb garbage that doesn't make any sense, but I'd take that over Awakening's bog standard Dragon Priest plot with a warlord who wants to end war by conquering the world awkwardly shoehorned in the middle. The only interesting plot hook Awakening had was that Robin was an alternate timeline version of the evil dragon god, and Lucina's conflict over whether she could let Robin live. The scene where Corrin goes "yes father, I think murdering civilians is cool" to get Garon and Iago off their back, and Azura subsequently completely flipping her poo poo is the greatest scene in the series. I don't understand how anyone could not love it. There's also so many characters that you can completely excise the boring royals and only keep the fun colorful characters in your army. And each royal comes with two better retainers, while you're stuck with boring Shepherds for a while before you can fill in the Gregors and cool kids.
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Jul 20, 2018 05:56
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For context, I'm also a huge The Room enthusiast. Fates is right in my sweet spot for being poorly written yet entirely earnest, Conquest especially.
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Jul 20, 2018 06:08
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I know! Azura is the dumbest fucker in Fire Emblem history, and there is no text that actually suggests otherwise, even if the writers actually intended for her to be worldly and wise. Her support with Keaton is almost as magical, and as a bonus, you get to make Shigure a ravenous werewolf. And Corrin being all over the board is a feature. The writers had so many ideas for making the protagonist actually fight for the evil empire and uphold their integrity, and they couldn't commit to a single one and instead produced a beautiful hot mess.
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I, for one, am glad that Conquest's storyline was hilariously terrible, instead of merely bad. I mean, it could theoretically have been good, but it would have taken a whole lot of finesse, especially given the constraint that major plot beats had to mirror Birthright's bog standard Fire Emblem story, and clever plots have never really been the legerdemain of the franchise.
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